The British Labour Party was founded.
The Battle of Tirad Pass was fought.
The first case of the bubonic plague was announced in Honolulu.
Henry Bliss became the first person killed in an automobile accident in the United States.
The first-ever message was sent from a ship to the shore at Cliff House, San Francisco.
German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin granted a patent for the navigable balloon.
Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkurv (Reykjavík Football Club), was founded.
French scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.
The Treaty of Paris was signed.
The Titanic of New England, the SS Portland, sunk off the coast of Maine.
The largest music fraternity in the USA, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, was founded.
Machine guns were used for the first time in a battle in Omdurman, Sudan, Africa.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company was incorporated.
The US Navy claimed the island of Guam, which was previously under Spanish control.
American Astronomer William Henry Pickering discovered Phoebe, one of Saturn's moons.
The tone poem Don Quixote by Richard Strauss premiered in Cologne, Germany.
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 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.
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.
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.
