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1900
 
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Queen Victoria gives permission for the newly founded National Physical Laboratory to move into Bushy House and its grounds See in Google maps   
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The American League emerges from baseball's Western League, before going national in 1901       
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The Voice of the People is the first of Ellen Glasgow's novels set in her native state, Virginia       
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Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya is directed by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre        
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Wilbur and Orville Wright test a biplane glider at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina        
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In the US presidential election William McKinley wins a second term on a simple platform, promising 'the full dinner pail'      
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Edward Elgar writes the oratorio Dream of Gerontius, setting Cardinal Newman's poem of the same title        
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Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise has Paris premiere at the Opéra-Comique       
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German physicist Max Planck proposes the revolutionary concept of the quantum theory        
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Lenin and comrades launch in Munich a radical newspaper, Iskra ('the spark')