George Smith, a London taxi driver, became the first person ever to be fined for drunk driving.
The London Electric Cab began operating on London streets.
Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Berlin.
Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah became the first elected female State Senator in the United States.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is first published.
The chandelier of the Palais Garnier Opera House broke, and its debris fell on a crowd.
The first modern international Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece.
Aleksander Popov achieves the world's first radio transmission.
Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
College students illegally produced America's first X-ray photo.
Austrian newspaper called 'Die Presse' released Willhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays.
Utah became the 45th state to join the United States of America.
Inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patented the pencil in the US.
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered x-rays.
Utah State ratified the women's right to vote in their state constitution.
The first electric power was generated at Niagara Falls.
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.
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.
Inventor Daniel Cooper patented the first time clock in the US.
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.
Tower Bridge officially opened in London.
Labor Day became an official US holiday.
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.
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.
Women's right to vote in New Zealand was given Royal Assent.
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.
Center left-wing Independent Labour Party was formed in Britain with Keir Hardie as the leader.
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.
The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper was published for the first time.
Abercrombie & Fitch opened their first store in Manhattan, New York City, US.
The Sierra Club was formed.
The General Electric Company was formed in New York.
Lord Stanley of Preston pledges to donate a challenge cup for the best ice hockey team in Canada.
Oscar Wilde's ''Lady Windermere Fan" premiered at St James Theatre, London, UK.
