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Technology TimelineTechnology TimelineMotorcycle invented by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach
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The Washington Monumnt has been completed
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A Timeline of the 20th Century[A Timeline of the 20th Century](http://.scaruffi.com/politics/20th.html)German engineer Karl Benz builds a gasoline-powered car
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The Statue of Liberty is built in New York
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Hertz produces radio waves
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Jack the Ripper in London. Commits series of brutal murders
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German company AEG develops the alternating-current motor and generator
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Wireless communication invented by Nikola Tesla
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Political TimelineBritain and Russia concluded an agreement to partition the Pamir region in Central Asia.
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H. G. Wells' science fiction novel The War of the Worlds
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World History U.S. President William McKinley dies after being shot in Buffalo by Leon Czolgosz; Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th President of the United States.
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Powered airplane invented by Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright
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Japan wins a war against Russia, the first time that an Asian power beats a European power
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Cultural eventsThe Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin
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Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere
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World War I breaks out in the Balkans, pitting Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Serbia and Japan against Austria, Germany and Turkey
