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1899Oct, 11

The Western League is renamed the American League.

The Western League was the name of several minor league baseball leagues that operated between 1885 and 1899. These leagues were focused mainly in the Midwestern United States.The 1893 incarnation of the league hired Ban Johnson as president in 1894. In 1900, Johnson renamed it the American League and declared that it was now a major league, intending to compete against the older National League of 1876, which was centered in the American Northeast states.

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    Canberra

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  • 6Feb

    Treaty of Paris (1898)

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    Aspirin

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    Royal charter

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  • 2Nov

    Siege of Ladysmith

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