O Canada was sung publically for the first time in Toronto by the band of The Royal Canadian Regiment while troops marched past the visiting Duke of York. The song, which was not yet the CAnadian national anthem, only had French lyrics at the time.
Alexander Winton of Cleveland and Henry Ford of Detroit competed against each other in a car race at a horse racing track in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. The respective automobiles were a Winton Motor Carriage Company with a 40-horsepower Bullet engine and 26-horsepower Detroit Automobile Company vehicle driven by Ford. The Ford vehicle was somewhat more technically advanced and he passed Winton on the eighth lap winning the race with an average speed of 43.5 miles per hour.
It was the only time that Henry Ford himself drove in an automobile race.
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