June 13 – Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, predecessor of global consumer goods brand
3M, begins trading as a mining venture at
Two Harbors in the United States.[3][4]
June 16 – The
Commonwealth Franchise Act in Australia grants
women's suffrage in federal elections for resident British subjects (with certain ethnic minorities excepted), making Australia the first independent country to grant women the vote at a national level, and the first country to allow them to stand for Parliament.
June 26 –
Edward VII institutes the
Order of Merit, an order bestowed personally by the British monarch on up to 24 distinguished Empire recipients.
November 16 – A newspaper cartoon depicting U.S. President "Teddy" Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear cub inspires creation of the first
teddy bear by
Morris Michtom in New York City.
November 30 – On the
American frontier, the second-in-command of
Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch,
Harvey Logan ("Kid Curry"), is captured after a shootout with lawmen in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is sentenced to a $5,000 fine and 20 years hard labor for robbery but escapes custody in 1903.
^"Continued Legal Battles". Thomas A. Edison Papers. Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. October 28, 2016.
Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
^"3M Birthplace Museum". Two Harbors: Lake County Historical Society.
Archived from the original on July 2, 2022. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
^"3M". Company Profiles for Students. Gale. 1999. Archived from
the original on May 18, 2013. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
^Harris M. Lentz (1994). Obituaries in the Performing Arts. McFarland & Company. p. 149.
^Ward, Jack (1993). Television guest stars : an illustrated career chronicle for 678 performers of the sixties and seventies. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co. p. 201.
ISBN9780899508078.
^Tschichold, Jan (1982). Jan Tschichold, typographer and type designer, 1902-1974. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland. pp. 8–9.
ISBN9780902220539.
^Peter Hallberg (1971).
Halldor Laxness. Ardent Media. p. 27.
Archived from the original on December 7, 2023. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
^{{
Nobelprize}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
^Institute for Research in Biography (New York, N.Y.); Marquis Who's Who, Inc (1965).
Who's who in Finance and Industry. [etc.] Marquis Who's Who. p. 487.
^Desmond, Michael (1992). European and American paintings and sculptures 1870-1970 in the Australian National Gallery. Canberra: Australian National Gallery. p. 48.
ISBN9780642130266.
^"Bret Harte Dead". Newburgh Daily Journal. May 6, 1902.
Archived from the original on January 28, 2022. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
^Baedeker's Barcelona. New York: Prentice Hall Travel. 1992. p. 43.
ISBN9780130635617.
^Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 8. Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 216.
ISBN0-19-861359-8.Article by Elinor Shaffer.
June 13 – Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, predecessor of global consumer goods brand
3M, begins trading as a mining venture at
Two Harbors in the United States.[3][4]
June 16 – The
Commonwealth Franchise Act in Australia grants
women's suffrage in federal elections for resident British subjects (with certain ethnic minorities excepted), making Australia the first independent country to grant women the vote at a national level, and the first country to allow them to stand for Parliament.
June 26 –
Edward VII institutes the
Order of Merit, an order bestowed personally by the British monarch on up to 24 distinguished Empire recipients.
November 16 – A newspaper cartoon depicting U.S. President "Teddy" Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear cub inspires creation of the first
teddy bear by
Morris Michtom in New York City.
November 30 – On the
American frontier, the second-in-command of
Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch,
Harvey Logan ("Kid Curry"), is captured after a shootout with lawmen in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is sentenced to a $5,000 fine and 20 years hard labor for robbery but escapes custody in 1903.
^"Continued Legal Battles". Thomas A. Edison Papers. Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. October 28, 2016.
Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
^"3M Birthplace Museum". Two Harbors: Lake County Historical Society.
Archived from the original on July 2, 2022. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
^"3M". Company Profiles for Students. Gale. 1999. Archived from
the original on May 18, 2013. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
^Harris M. Lentz (1994). Obituaries in the Performing Arts. McFarland & Company. p. 149.
^Ward, Jack (1993). Television guest stars : an illustrated career chronicle for 678 performers of the sixties and seventies. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co. p. 201.
ISBN9780899508078.
^Tschichold, Jan (1982). Jan Tschichold, typographer and type designer, 1902-1974. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland. pp. 8–9.
ISBN9780902220539.
^Peter Hallberg (1971).
Halldor Laxness. Ardent Media. p. 27.
Archived from the original on December 7, 2023. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
^{{
Nobelprize}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
^Institute for Research in Biography (New York, N.Y.); Marquis Who's Who, Inc (1965).
Who's who in Finance and Industry. [etc.] Marquis Who's Who. p. 487.
^Desmond, Michael (1992). European and American paintings and sculptures 1870-1970 in the Australian National Gallery. Canberra: Australian National Gallery. p. 48.
ISBN9780642130266.
^"Bret Harte Dead". Newburgh Daily Journal. May 6, 1902.
Archived from the original on January 28, 2022. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
^Baedeker's Barcelona. New York: Prentice Hall Travel. 1992. p. 43.
ISBN9780130635617.
^Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 8. Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 216.
ISBN0-19-861359-8.Article by Elinor Shaffer.