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Fauvist movement in painting begins, led by Henri Matisse.
Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
In China, the anti-foreigner Boxers occupy Beijing. International force ends both the siege and the Boxer Rebellion.

President: William McKinley
Vice President: none
Population: 76,094,000

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Hurricane ravages Galveston, Tex.; 6,000 – 8,000 dead. Background: U.S. Hurricanes
Carrie Chapman Catt succeeds Susan B. Anthony as president of National Woman Suffrage Association.

Unemployment: 5.0%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02

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Montreal Shamrocks

Women: Blanche Hillyard d. C. Cooper (4-6 6-4 6-4)
Men: Reggie Doherty d. S. Smith (6-8 6-3 6-1 6-2)

Lieut. Gibson

Yale (12-0-0)

Floradora opens at Broadway's Casino Theatre. It introduces the Floradora sextet, a predecessor to the chorus line.

German physicist Max Planck formulates an energy theory, postulating the existence of "quanta," which lays the groundwork for the quantum theory of modern physics.