DEADLY
INSECTS (Feb.
22): Maj. Walter Reed and Dr. James Carroll of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever
Commission in Cuba reveal that the dreaded disease endemic to the tropics
is carried by a species of mosquito.
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ON THE ROAD (March 4): Every driver's savior, the American
Automobile Association, or Triple A, is formed in Chicago for the "development
and introduction of the automobile."
COUNT 'EM UP (March
6): Congress establishes the Census Bureau.
RECORDING SENSATION
(March 18): Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his first phonograph recordings
in a hotel room in Milan. He records 10 songs for $500.
NO CHINESE ALLOWED
(April 29): The Senate votes to extend the Chinese Exclusion Act for the
second time. The act bars Chinese immigration to the United States, protecting
American workers from the threat of cheap Asian labor.
FREE CUBA (May
20): Cuba gains independence from Spain, and U.S. troops end the occupation
that followed the Spanish-American War of 1898; Tomas Estrada Palma is
elected first president of the independent Republic of Cuba.
RIDING THE RAILS
(June 15): The Twentieth Century Limited goes into service to begin a
65-year career on the rail route between New York and Chicago.
TENNIS, ANYONE?
(Aug. 8): The United States tennis team beats Britain in the Davis Cup,
3-2.
CRUSADING WITH CARRY NATION
(Oct. 16): Carry Nation brings her crusade against "demon rum" to Austin,
Texas. She wrecks a few saloons and then marches on the campus of the
University of Texas in search of drunken law school professors.
ROOSEVELT BATTLES RACISM (Nov. 27): President Roosevelt says that a man's color or race is no bar to service in public office. Roosevelt is responding to Southern critics regarding his recent appointment of a black man to the post of Collector of the Port of Charleston.
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What's Hot On
Nov. 10, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt goes hunting in Mississippi
while trying to settle a boundary dispute between that state and
Louisiana. Well aware of the president's love of exotic game, his
staff captures a Louisiana black bear for Roosevelt to shoot. But
the president sets it free. In The Washington Post of Nov. 18, editorial
cartoonist Clifford Berryman shows Roosevelt refusing to shoot the
bear in a cartoon entitled "Drawing the Line in Mississippi." Births Langston Hughes, writer, Feb. 1 Charles Lindbergh, aviator, Feb. 4 John Steinbeck, novelist, Feb. 27 Thomas E. Dewey, politician, March 24 Guy Lombardo, band leader, June 19 Richard Rodgers, composer, June 28 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., diplomat, July 5 Ogden Nash, poet, Aug. 19 Ed Sullivan, television host, Oct. 13 Deaths Emile Zola, French author (born 1840) |
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Teddy Bears
Morris Michtom, a candy store owner in Brooklyn, N.Y., sees the
cartoon and figures there's money to be made. He and his wife make
a stuffed plush toy with movable arms, legs and head and -- with
the president's permission -- call it the "teddy bear." The toy
bear becomes an icon.