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| 1900 |
| | | Puerto Ricans are granted limited democracy in a bill of rigfhts introduced after two years of US military occupation | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Frank Baum introduces children to Oz, in his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | |
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| 1900 |
| | | David Belasco's play Madame Butterfly has its premiere in New York, and is subsequently seen in London by Giacomo Puccini | |
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| c. 1900 |
| | | Rubber brings prosperity to Manaus, thousands of miles up the Amazon | |
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| 1900 |
| | | After a prodigiously productive career as novelist and journalist, Stephen Crane dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28 | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Harvey Firestone sets up the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Joshua Slocum publishes Sailing Alone Around the World, an account of his famous 1895-8 circumnavigation | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Jack London's first collection of stories, The Son of the Wolf, brings him a wide readership | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie, receives no publicity because his publisher, Frank Doubleday, considers it immoral | |
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| 1900 |
| | | More than 8000 people die when a hurricane demolishes the seaside resort of Galveston in Texas | |
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