Carry Nation embarks on a women's temperance crusade across Kansas. She and her group smash saloons with hatchets while singing. Theodore Roosevelt becomes president at age 42. Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic wireless message from England to Newfoundland. The invention is soon used to propel radio and television forward.
Oil is discovered for the first time in Southeast Texas.
This tremendous gusher ushers in a lucrative new period in America's oil industry. Booker T. Washington publishes his autobiography Up from Slavery. The Aswan Dam is completed in Egypt. A Brooklyn toy store sells the first teddy bear, named after President Theodore Roosevelt. In football, the first Tournament of Roses is held in Pasadena, California.