Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
American inventor Ogden Bolton Jr. patented the first electric-powered bicycle.
The Chicago Times-Herald sponsored the United States' first-ever car race, with the winning car going an average of 7 miles per hour.
Inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patented the pencil in the US.
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered x-rays.
George B. Selden was granted the patent for a gasoline internal combustion engine car.
Utah State ratified the women's right to vote in their state constitution.
John Brallier became the first openly paid professional American Football player when he was paid $10 to play a match.
The first electric power was generated at Niagara Falls.
Caroline Willard Baldwin became the first woman in the USA to earn a PhD.
Birt Acres, a British inventor, patented the film camera/projector.
Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labor for committing gross acts of indecency with another male person.
The world-famous Swan Lake ballet premiered in St. Petersburg at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre.
The National Trust (UK) was founded as an independent charity to conserve England's environment and heritage.
Alfred Dreyfus is sentenced to life imprisonment.
