Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361 

Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary) 

Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders 

Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor, dies 

With a recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb Thomas Edison demonstrated the first phonograph, in New Jersey, US 

Columbus discovered Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic