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"Historical Highlights: Queen Victoria dies and is succeeded by Edward VII; the Phillipines seek to form a new democratic system of government as a U.S. protectorate; Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic wireless message; in the U.S., Theodore Roosevelt becomes the twenty-sixth President when William McKinley is assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz; the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty opens the way for a U.S.-built Panama Canal."