President McKinley established a civil government in the Philippines and appointed William Howard Taft as its first governor.
Japanese statesman Hoshi Tōru, formerly the Speaker of Japan's House of Representatives and the Japanese Minister to the United States, was stabbed to death by Iba Shotaro, a bank manager and former college dean.
In something debatable to this day, the first waters from the Colorado River arrived in the Imperial Valley in the southern California desert through a complicated diversion system.
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