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Arts and literature

  •  makes his debut with the Metropolitan Opera Company in Rigoletto.
  • Victor Herbert's operetta premieres.
  • The Edison Corporation releases the seminal Western .
  •  nears end of his blue period in Barcelona and is about to move to Paris.
  • , a vaudeville comedy team, open on Broadway in Dahomey, the first all-black musical on a major New York stage. They later participate in a royal command performance at Buckingham Palace for the Prince of Wales.
  • French composer  writes his song cycle "Sheherazade."
  •  publishes Souls of Black Folk, a collection of essays.
  • Henry James writes .
  • George Bernard Shaw writes .
  • Helen Keller publishes .
  • Jack London publishes .