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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s – 1890s – 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years:	1896 1897 1898 – 1899 – 1900 1901 1902

Events

January 1 – Queens and Staten Island join with New York City.
Thomson measures the charge and mass of an electron.
August/early September-The 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane hits the Bahamas, Florida and North Carolina

Births

Images for kids

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January 1: Cuba free.
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January 21: Opel car.
First flight of the Zeppelin LZ 1 airship
Antal Páger
Café Filho
Ramon Novarro
Erich Kästner
King Frederick IX of Denmark
Fred Astaire
Fritz Albert Lipmann
George Cukor
Ernest Hemingway
Alfred Hitchcock
Macfarlane Burnet
Franz Jonas
László Bíró
Pat O'Brien
Noël Coward
Humphrey Bogart
Alfred Sisley
Emma Hardinge Britten
Robert Bunsen
Frances Laughton Mace
Garret Hobart
Walter Lantz
Gustav Heinemann

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