stages, it can be considered the first rally. The first three places are taken by two Panhards and a three-wheeler De Dion-Bouton. October–December October Rudyard Kipling publishes the story Mowgli Leaves the Jungle Forever in The Cosmopolitan illustrated magazine in the United States (price 10 cents), collected in The Second Jungle Book, published in England in November. The London School of Economics holds its first classes in London, England. October 1 – French troops capture Antananarivo, Madagascar. October 2 – Peiyang University, as predecessor of Tianjin University, as representative institution of higher education school in China, was founded in former Qing Dynasty. October 8 – The Eulmi Incident: Empress Myeongseong of Korea is killed at her private residence within Gyeongbokgung Palace by Japanese agents. October 22 – Montparnasse derailment: A locomotive runs through the exterior wall of the Gare Montparnasse terminus, in Paris. October 23 – The city of Tainan, last stronghold of the Republic of Formosa, capitulates to the forces of the Empire of Japan, ending the short-lived republic, and beginning the era of Taiwan under Japanese rule. October 31 – A major earthquake occurs in the New Madrid Seismic Zone of the midwestern United States, the last to date. November 1 – The Berlin Wintergarten theatre was the site of the first cinema ever, with a short movie presented by the Skladanowsky brothers November 5 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. November 8 – Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation (later known as X-rays). November 17 – Flamengo, a well known professional football club in Brazil, is officially founded. November 25 – Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City's Times Square district. November 27 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death. November 28 – Chicago Times-Herald race: The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald. Press coverage first arouses significant American interest in the automobile. December Ottoman troops burn 3,000 Armenians alive in Urfa . The Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War begins. December 7 – A corps of 2,350 Italian troops, mostly Askari, are crushed by 30,000 Abyssinian troops at Amba Alagi. December 11 – Svante Arrhenius becomes the first scientist to deliver quantified data about the sensitivity