Sep 30 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar

Sep 03 Latrobe, PA is the site of the world's first professional football game, played today between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.)

Sep 21 The first auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company

Sep 18 Booker T Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address

Sep 12 Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (England) in 10th America's Cup

Jun 11 Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent to an American inventor for a gas-powered automobile.

Jun 20 A Charlois discovers asteroid #404 Arsinoe

Jun 20 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation

Jun 13 �mile Levassor wins first Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)

Jun 17 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan

Jun 20 First female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)

Dec 02 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes

Dec 17 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC

Dec 17 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)

Dec 22 Wilhelm Rontgen, the German physicist, makes the first ever X-ray of his wife's hand

Oct 08 The birth of Juan Peron, Argentine general, and former President

Oct 04 The birth of Buster Keaton,US Actor of silent screen era

Jul 03 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)

Jul 11 First motion picture is shown in Paris by the Lumiere brothers.

Jul 12 The birth of Buckminster Fuller, American architect

Jul 23 A Charlois discovers asteroid #405 Thia

Mar 26 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day

Mar 06 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2

Mar 06 J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 minutes) England vs Australia

Mar 25 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

Mar 30 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge

Mar 13 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die

Mar 19 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service

Mar 22 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their first movie to an invited audience

Mar 18 200 blacks leave Savannah GA for Liberia

Mar 11 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next Page »