The Kiel Canal is opened by German Emperor Wilhelm II.
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.
Alexander Popov demonstrates the world's first radio receiver.
Oscar Wilde loses his criminal libel case triggered by accusations of homosexuality.
The Lumière brothers record their first footage.
Enrico Caruso makes his stage debut.
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.
Nicholas II became Tsar of Russia.
Inventor Daniel Cooper patented the first time clock in the US.
A day after Japan wins the Battle of Pyongyang it defeats China in the Battle of the Yalu River.
Battle of Pyongyang ends with decisive Japanese victory.
Over 400 people died in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
A Japanese scientist, Shibasaburo Kitasato, isolated the bacterium of the Bubonic Plague.
Mahatma Gandhi formed the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) to help fight discrimination.
World's first competitive motor race.
Tower Bridge officially opened in London.
Labor Day became an official US holiday.
Karl Benz patented the gasoline-operated motor car.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is founded.
The Polio epidemic took hold for the first time in the US at Rutland, Vermont.
The world's favorite soda, Coca-Cola, was sold in glass bottles in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA.
Milton S. Hershey founded Hershey's Chocolate Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US.
William Painter secured a patent for the capped bottle opener.
Auguste Vaillant bombs the French Chamber of Deputies.
Women voted in a general election for the first time in New Zealand.
Colorado became the second US state to give women the right to vote.
A gasoline-powered car was tested in Springfield, Massachusetts, for the first time in the US.
Women's right to vote in New Zealand was given Royal Assent.
Beatrix Potter wrote her first story of Peter Rabbit in the form of a letter for Noel Moore.
33-year-old Katharine Lee Bates wrote the famous song 'America the Beautiful.'
Stock markets crashed in New York because of a public panic, which was traced back to wheat crop failure in Argentina.
Henri Desgrange made the world's first world record for a bicycle, reaching a speed of 21.95 miles per hour.
Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
Center left-wing Independent Labour Party was formed in Britain with Keir Hardie as the leader.
"The Nutcracker" makes its debut in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The first issue of Vogue magazine was published.
Pudge Heffelfinger played his first paid game, making him the first professional American Football player.
Ida B. Wells published 'Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.'
The detective novel 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' by Arthur Conan Doyle was published.
The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in American schools.
Notorious American outlaws, The Dalton Brothers, set out to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.
The first-ever American football game played at night occurred in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Jupiter's fifth moon.
The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper was published for the first time.
Abby and Andrew Borden are murdered.
Abercrombie & Fitch opened their first store in Manhattan, New York City, US.
