The Titanic of New England, the SS Portland, sunk off the coast of Maine.
The Chicago Times-Herald sponsored the United States' first-ever car race, with the winning car going an average of 7 miles per hour.
Women voted in a general election for the first time in New Zealand.
J.B. Sutherland from Detroit patented refrigerated railroad cars.
Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' novel was published in the US.
England and France formally recognized Hawaii's independence.
The New York and Harlem Railroad became the first railroad to operate in the US.
British pharmacist John Walker invented the matchstick by accident.
