Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
Paris Metro opens.
The Federation of Australia was given Royal Assent.
The Zeppelin Takes Off for the First Time.
Hawaii became a US territory when President William McKinley signed it into law.
The US Navy bought their first-ever submarine called the USS Holland or SS-1.
The Rapid Transit Railroad broke ground on a new underground subway to link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
The British Labour Party was founded.
The Battle of Tirad Pass was fought.
The first case of the bubonic plague was announced in Honolulu.
Boer War begins in South Africa.
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 ReykjavÃkurv (ReykjavÃk 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.
Wilmington riots begin.
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 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.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel signed his will.
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.
Englishman wins the first U.S. Open golf tournament.
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.
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.
