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Leap year started on a Tuesday.
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First Modern Olympic Games
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Most severe Earthquake in India.
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First case of Plague hit Oahu, Hawaii
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25% of all cars sold this year were Electric cars.
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President William Mckinley was assasinated by Leon Czologosz.
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Hubert Cecil Booth Makes the worlds first Vacuum Cleaner designed ot suck up dirt.
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Prussia became the first country to issue drivers licenses
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International Morse Code distress signal
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J.J. Thompson recieved his first Nobel Prize in 1906 for physics.
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1st Electron Microscope Demonstrated