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Nasir al-Din Shah is assassinated by an Islamic activist and is replaced by a weak ruler who gives many oil concessions to the British.
Mubarak ibn Abdallah gains control of Kuwait from his brother Muhammad ibn Abdallah, who has ruled since 1892. Mubarak obtains support from the British to block Ottoman interests in the state in exchange for a pro-British foreign policy.
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the doctrine of "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson, which is used by many states and cities, especially in the South, to provide inferior services to African Americans, a policy that will stand until 1954.
1 March Italian troops invade Ethiopia, but they are defeated by the Ethiopians at the battle of Adua.
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