Notable Events and People, 1876 to 1899

Notable Events and People, 1876 to 1899

Little Big Horn/ Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, 1876/ Dewey Decimal System/ Player piano/ Molly Maguires/ Edison and the phonograph/ Edison and the electric light/ Bat Masterson/ Easter-egg Roll on the White House lawn/ Women's right to practice law/ Pavlov and the conditioned reflex/ Woolworth/ St. Patrick's Cathedral/ Milk bottles/ Boer War/ Immigration from England and Ireland/ Garfield assassinated/ Russia's Aleksandr II assassinated/ Russian Jewish pogrom/ American Red Cross/ Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute/ Billy the Kid/ Shootout at OK Corral/ Internal combustion engine--Gottlieb Daimler/ "The public be damned": William H. Vanderbilt/ TB/ Hypnosis/ Hatfield-McCoy feud/ Brooklyn Bridge/ Orient Express from Paris to Constantinople/ First fully automatic machine gun/ Edison and the radio tube/ Life Magazine/ Krakatoa volcanic explosion/ Montgomery Ward catalog/ The Waterman fountain pen/ Overhand pitching in baseball/ First roller coaster/ First electric trolley/ Two-cent postal stamps/ Finger prints/ First skyscraper, Chicago/ Chicago Haymarket Massacre and the Labor Movement/ AF of L and Samuel Gompers/ Last major Indian war/ German Paul Gottlieb and television/ Tuxedo/ Sears, Roebuck/ Maxwell House coffee/ Statue of Liberty, 1886/ Jim Crow laws and segregation/ Helen Keller/ Gregg shorthand/ Kodak camera/ Jack the Ripper/ Washington Monument/ Blizzard of '88/ Oklahoma/ Nellie Bly, reporter/ Wall Street Journal/ John L. Sullivan/ First All-American football team/ Flexible Flyer sled/ Belle Starr/ Eiffel Tower/ Johnstown flood/ Cecil Rhodes and Africa/ Wounded Knee/ Sherman Anti-Trust Act/ Electric chair for capital punishment/ Yosemite National Park/ Peanut butter/ Trans-Siberian Railway Carnegie Hall/ John McGraw/ Pledge of Allegiance/ "Gentleman Jim" Corbett/ Dalton Gang/ Sierra Club/ Ellis Island/ Henry Ford/ First open-heart surgery/ Stanley Cup and hockey/ Ferris Wheel/ Lizzie Borden/ Salt Lake City's Mormon Temple/ Labor strikes/ Labor Day/ Dreyfus affair and anti-Semitism/ Theodore Herzl and Zionism/ Lenin/ Diesel engine/ First U.S. pneumatic tires/ X-ray and diagnostic medicine/ Marconi and wireless telegraphy/ First theater showing of motion pictures/ "America the Beautiful"/ Gillette razor/ Canned foods/ First U.S. pizzeria/ Klondike Gold Rush/ Stanley Steamer/ Discovery of radioactivity in uranium/ First comic strip, "Yellow Kid"/ Revival of the Olympic Games/ Hawaii annexed/ First Boston Marathon/ Spanish-American War/ The Curies isolate radium/ Gideon Bibles/ Stanislawski and the theater/ United Mine Workers of America/ Aspirin/ John Dewey and progressive education/ The boll weevil.