Robber Baron Era
- 1875 Jan 22: Birthday of cinema pioneer D.W. Griffith; he died in 1948.
- 1875 Jan 24: Birthday of painter Maynard Dixon in Fresno, California; he died in 1946.
- 1875 May 17: Running of the first Kentucky Derby horserace in Lexington, Kentucky.
- 1875 Sept 1: Birthday of author Edgar Rice Burroughs in Chicago, Illinois; the creator of Tarzan died in 1950.
- 1875 Dec 4: William Marcy 'Boss' Tweed, head of New York City's corrupt Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled the country.
- 1876
- Founding of Adams Sons & Co., makers of chicle-based chewing gum; added licorice flavoring in 1884, introduced Adams' Black Jack Gum, the first flavored gum in America.
- Founding of Chase Candy Co., which in 1918 created the Cherry Mash® candy bar.
- Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Michigan invented the carpet sweeper; patent received & company founded same year.
- Hires Root Beer soft drink introduced by pharmacist Charles Hires in Philadelphia, PA.
- 1876 Feb 2: Founding of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs in New York.
- 1876 March 7: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.
- 1876 March 10: First voice transmission by telephone, as Alexander Graham Bell's lab assistant heard him say "Mr. Watson, come here."
- 1876 June 25: Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana: Sioux & Cheyenne warriors wiped out LtCol George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops.
- 1876 Aug 8: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison received a patent for his mimeograph duplicator.
- 1877 Nov 21: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison announced that he had invented the phonograph.
- 1878: The first telephone directory was published in New Haven, Connecticut and contained 50 names.
- 1878 Jan 28: The first commercial telephone switchboard began operation in New Haven, Connecticut.
- 1878 Feb 19: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison received a patent for his phonograph.
- 1878 Aug 21: The American Bar Assn. was founded in Sarasota, Florida.
- 1878 Sept 20: Birthday of muckraker Upton Sinclair in Baltimore, Maryland; he died in 1968.
- 1879: F.W. Woolworth opened his first store in Lancaster City, Pennsylvania; the chain folded in 1997.
- 1879 March: End of the worldwide Long Depression that lasted 65 months (triggered by the New York Stock Exchange Panic of September 1873).
- 1879 March 14: Birthday of physicist Albert Einstein in Ulm, Germany; he died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1955.
- 1879 May 5: U.S. Supreme Court decided Reynolds vs. U.S., finding that religious beliefs, such as polygamy, are not a defense in criminal prosecutions.
- 1879 Oct 21: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison perfected a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
- 1879 Nov 4: Brothers James & John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio received a patent for the first cash register machine.
- 1879 Dec 20: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison privately demonstrated the incandescent electric light at Menlo Park, New Jersey.
- 1879 Dec 31: First public demonstration of Edison's incandescent light at Menlo Park, New Jersey.
- 1880: Samuel Bath Thomas purchased a bakery in Manhattan and featured Thomas' English muffins (unknown in England).
- 1880 Jan 6: Birthday of silent movie cowboy star Tom Mix in Mix Run, Pennsylvania; he died in Florence, Arizona in 1940.
- 1880 Jan 17: Birthday of silent-era studio head Michael 'Mack' Sennett in Danville, Quebec, Canada; he died at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, California in 1960.
- 1880 Jan 27: Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
- 1880 Jan 29: Birthday of vaudeville & movie comedian W.C. Fields in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; he died in Pasadena, California in 1946.
- 1880 Sept 12: Birthday of author / curmudgeon H.L. Mencken in Baltimore, Maryland; he died there in 1956.
- 1881 March 8: Silver spike ceremony in Deming, New Mexico joining the Second Transcontinental Railroad (Southern Pacific from the west, AT&SF from the east).
- 1881 May 21: Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
- 1881 July 2: Charles J. Guiteau shot President Garfield at the Washington, DC railroad station; Garfield died the following September.
- 1881 July 8: Druggist Edward Berners of Two Rivers, Wisconsin served the first 'ice cream sundae', putting ice cream in a dish and pouring flavoring syrup for soda water (not allowed on Sundays) on top.
- 1881 Oct 26: 'Gunfight at the O.K. Corral' took place in Tombstone, Arizona; Ike Clanton's gang fought against U.S. Deputy Marshal Virgil Earp, his deputized brothers Wyatt & Morgan, and dentist 'Doc' Holliday; three Clantons were killed and Doc, Virgil & Morgan were wounded.
- 1881 Dec 31: Mayor James R. Toberman switched on new electric street lighting in Los Angeles, California.
- 1882 March 22: Congress passed a law outlawing polygamy, which was signed by President Arthur.
- 1882 July 22: Birthday of painter Edward Hopper in Upper Nyack, New York; he died in 1967.
- 1882 Sept 5: The first Labor Day Parade, in New York City.
- 1882 Sept-Dec: Railroad hireling Roscoe Conklin gave purjured testimony during the San Mateo County v. Southern Pacific Railroad case.
- 1882 Nov 6: Birthday of silent era studio head Thomas H. Ince in Newport, Rhode Island; he died mysteriously in 1924 in Beverly Hills, California.
- 1883: Oscar Mayer opened a butcher shop in Chicago with his brother; company acquired by General Foods in 1981.
- 1883: Legend has it that when a printer in Cheyenne, Wyoming ran out of white paper for the local telephone directory, he used yellow paper and thus invented the Yellow Pages.
- 1883 Feb 2: Birthday of author Johnston McCulley in Ottawa, Illinois; the creator of El Zorro (in 1918) died in 1958.
- 1883 Feb 3: Birthday of author Clarence E. Mulford [1883-1956] in Streator, Illinois; the creator of Western hero Hopalong Cassidy died in Maine in 1956.
- 1883 May 23: Birthday of silent movie star Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. in Denver, Colorado; he died in Santa Monica, California in 1939.
- 1883 May 24: New York's Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan Island, opened to traffic.
- 1883 June 5: Birthday of economist John Maynard Keynes in Cambridge, England; he died in 1946.
- 1883 Sept 8: The third major transcontinental railroad, the Northern Pacific Railway, was completed; the ceremonial gold spike was driven at Gold Creek, Montana Territory.
- 1883 Nov 18: The General Time Convention, a system of standard time zones, went into effect in the U.S. & Canada replacing local time settings.
- 1884: Creation of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat by 17-year-old John A. 'Bud' Hillerich, whose father owned a woodworking shop.
- 1884 Jan 2: Birthday of pioneer filmmaker Oscar Micheaux in Metropolis, Illinois; he died in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1951.
- 1884 March 13: Standard Time went into effect across the United States.
- 1884 June 15: Birthday of silent movie comedy star Harry Langdon in Council Bluffs, Iowa; he died in Los Angeles, California in 1944.
- 1884 Dec 6: Army engineers completed the Washington Monument obelisk by placing an aluminum capstone at its peak.
- 1885: Charles Alderton of Waco, Texas invented the Dr. Pepper™ soft drink; the Dr. Pepper Museum opened in 1991.
- 1885 Feb 21: Dedication of the Washington Monument cenotaph.
- 1885 March 26: Eastman Dry Plate & Film Company of Rochester, New York manufactured the first commercial motion picture film.
- 1885 June: Arrival of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor from France, aboard the sailing ship Isere.
- 1885 July 29: Birthday of silent movie actress Theda Bara in Cincinnati, Ohio; she quit acting in 1926 and died in 1955 in Los Angeles, California.
- 1885 Sep 22: Birthday of Erich von Stroheim in Vienna, Austria-Hungary; the director of "Greed" [1924] died in 1957 near Paris, France.
- 1886: Opening of the first golf course in the U.S. by John Hamilton Gillespie in Sarasota, Florida.
- 1886: Milton Hershey founded a candy company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- 1886 May 4: 'The Haymarket Massacre' of labor strikers in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1886 May 8: Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton of Atlanta, Georgia invented the flavor syrup for Coca-Cola® soft drink.
- 1886 May 10: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in "Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company" that corporations are 'persons' having the same rights as human beings, based on the 14th Amendment (which was intended to protect the rights of former slaves). [story]
- 1886 Oct 10: Debut of the tuxedo dinner jacket at the Autumn Ball in Tuxedo Park, New Jersey.
- 1886 Oct 28: Dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor by President Cleveland.
- 1886 Nov 18: Birthday of Hollywood screenwriter Frances Marion in San Francisco, California; she died in 1973.
- 1886 Dec 1: Birthday of mystery author Rex Stout in Noblesville, Indiana; the creator of Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin died in 1975.
- 1886 Dec 8: Founding of the American Federation of Labor in Columbus, Ohio.
- 1886 Dec 24: Birthday of movie director Michael Curtiz in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; he died in Hollywood, California in 1962.
- 1887 Jan 20: U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
- 1887 March 11: Birthday of movie director Raoul Walsh in New York City; he died in Simi Valley, California in 1980.
- 1887 March 22: Birthday of Leonard 'Chico' Marx in New York City; the oldest member of 'The Marx Brothers' comedy team died in Hollywood, California in 1961.
- 1887 March 24: Birthday of silent movie comedy star Roscoe Conkling 'Fatty' Arbuckle in Smith Center, Kansas; he died in New York City in 1933.
- 1887 Oct 4: The New York Herald newspaper founded its Paris Herald edition in France, which later became the International Herald Tribune, operated since 2003 as the Global Edition of The New York Times.
- 1887 Nov 15: Birthday of painter Georgia O'Keeffe near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin; she died in 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- 1888 June 13: Congress established the Department of Labor.
- 1888 July 23: Birthday of mystery author Raymond Chandler in Chicago, Illinois; he died in Laguna Beach, California in 1959.
- 1888 Sept 4: George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film camera and registered his Kodak trademark.
- 1888 Oct 16: Birthday of playwright Eugene O'Neill in New York City; he died in Boston, Massachusetts in 1953.
- 1888 Nov 23: Birthday of Arthur Adolph 'Harpo' Marx in New York City; the second member of 'The Marx Brothers' comedy team died in Los Angeles, California in 1964.
- 1889
- Founding of McCormick Spice Co. in Baltimore, Maryland.
- First U.S. pedestrian killed by an automobile, when Arthur Smith ran over Henry Bliss at the corner of 74th Street
and Central Park West in New York City.
- The first coin-operated telephone was installed at a bank in Hartford, CT.
- 1889 Jan 5: First printed mention of the hamburger sandwich, in a Walla Walla, Washington newspaper.
- 1889 April 16: Birthday of silent film star Charles Chaplin in London, England; he died in 1977 in Switzerland.
- 1889 July 8: First publication of The Wall Street Journal.
- 1889 July 17: Birthday of mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner in Malden, Massachusetts; the creator of defense lawyer Perry Mason died at his ranch near Temecula, California in 1970.
- 1889 Nov 23: The first jukebox made its debut at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco, California.
- 1890: George Bayle, Jr. invented peanut butter.
- 1890: Founding of the American Biscuit Co. by Adolphus Green in Chicago; the New York Biscuit Co. was formed by merger of 8 companies; those two and United States Baking Co. merged in 1898 to form the National Biscuit Co.; first used Nabisco trademark in 1901.
- 1890 Jan 25: Founding of the United Mine Workers of America.
- 1890 Feb 26: Birthday of silent movie cowboy star Fred Thomson in Pasadena, California; he died in Beverly Hills, California in 1928.
- 1890 Sept 25: President Benjamin Harrison signed the law establishing Sequoia National Park.
- 1890 Oct 2: Birthday of Julius Henry 'Groucho' Marx in New York City; the middle member of 'The Marx Brothers' comedy team died in Los Angeles, California in 1977.
- 1890 Oct 9: Birthday of radio evangalist Aimee Semple McPherson near Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada; she died in Oakland, California in 1944.
- 1890 Oct 11: Founding of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, DC.
- 1890 Dec 5: Birthday of movie director Friedrich Christian Anton 'Fritz' Lang in Vienna, Austria; he died in Beverly Hills, California in 1976.
- 1890 Dec 29: 'Wounded Knee Massacre' of 300 Sioux Indians in South Dakota, killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.
- 1891: William Wrigley, Jr. began selling powdered soap, then baking powder; added chewing gum packs as an incentive; introduced first Wrigley chewing gum brands in 1892.
- 1891 Aug 24: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison filed patents for the Kinetograph 35mm camera & the Kinetoscope viewer.
- 1891 Sept: Launch of the American factory producing rennet for cheesemaking in Little Falls, New York, a branch of a Danish company founded in 1874; the company is now Junket Desserts.
- 1892: Founding of Geo. A. Hormel & Co. as a small retail store in downtown Austin, Minnesota.
- 1892 Jan 18: Birthday of movie comedian Oliver Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia; he died in North Hollywood, California in 1957.
- 1892 Jan 28: Birthday of movie director Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin, Germany; he died in Hollywood, California in 1947.
- 1892 May 28: Founding of the Sierra Club in San Francisco.
- 1892 May 29: Birthday of author & poet Frederick Schiller Faust in Seattle, Washington; his primary pen name was Western author Max Brand; he died in combat in Italy in 1944.
- 1892 Summer: Earliest documented ice cream sundae, advertised by the Platt & Colts Soda Fountain in Ithaca, New York after invention by owner Chester Platt & Rev. John Scott.
- 1892 June-Oct: The Homestead Strike at the Carnegie Steel Mill.
- 1892 July 1: Birthday of 'hard-boiled' mystery author James M. Cain in Annapolis, Maryland; he died in 1977.
- 1892 Aug: The Pledge of Allegiance was created by socialist Francis Bellamy.
- 1892 Aug 23: Birthday of movie cowboy star Hoot Gibson in Tekamah, Nebraska; he died in 1962 at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, California.
- 1892 Oct 5: The Dalton Gang train robbers were nearly wiped out in their attempt to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.
- 1892 Oct 18: Formal opening of the first long-distance telephone line, between Chicago and New York City (it could handle only one call at a time).
- 1892 Oct 23: Birthday of Milton 'Gummo' Marx in New York City; the fourth member of 'The Marx Brothers' comedy team died in Palm Springs, California in 1977.
- 1893
- William Wrigley, Jr. introduced chewing gum brands Spearmint & JuicyFruit.
- Good & Plenty® candy - oldest branded candy in the United States - introduced by Quaker City Confectionery Co.
in Philadelphia.
- World's Fair {aka Columbian Exposition) introduced Aunt Jemima's Pancake Mix, Cracker Jack® snacks, the Ferris
Wheel, and electric lighting [constructed by Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse].
- 1893 Jan 17: A group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate, ending Hawaii's monarchy.
- 1893 Feb: Genius inventor Nikola Tesla
lectured on the principles of 'wireless telegraphy' [broadcast radio] at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA.
- 1893 Feb 1: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
- 1893 March 2: Congress passed the Safety Appliance Act making automatic air brakes mandatory on all railroad cars; the accident/injury rate dropped 60% within a year.
- 1893 April 20: Birthday of silent movie comedy star Harold Lloyd in Burchard, Nebraska; he died in Beverly Hills, California in 1971.
- 1893 May 9: First public demonstration of Edison's Kinetoscope in Brooklyn, New York.
- 1893 June 20: Founding of the first U.S. industrial union, the American Railway Union in Chicago, led by Eugene V. Debs.
- 1893 June 27: The financial 'Panic of 1893' was a crash of the New York stock market caused by a run on the gold supply, the worst economic crisis to hit the nation in its history to that point.
- 1893 Aug 22: Birthday of author / wit Dorothy Parker in Long Branch, New Jersey; she died in 1967.
- 1893 Aug 29: Founding of Southern California Fruit Exchange by independent citrus growers in California; brand name Sunkist introduced in 1908.
- 1893 Sept 16: Oklahoma Cherokee Strip Land Rush.
- 1893 Oct 6: Introduction of Cream of Wheat® brand farina hot cereal, by Diamond Milling Co. of Grand Forks, North Dakota.
- 1893 Oct 20: Birthday of silent movie actor-director Charley Chase in Baltimore, Maryland; he died in Hollywood, California in 1940.
- 1893 Nov 7: Women gained the right to vote in Colorado.
- 1894: While experimenting with shredded wheat cereal, the Kellogg brothers accidentlally invented flaked wheat cereal; created flaked corn cereal in 1898; founded Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co in 1906.
- 1894: Founding of Robinson-Danforth Commission Co. to produce animal feed; line of Purina human food products introduced in 1898; company name changed to Ralston Purina in 1902.
- 1894 Feb 1: Birthday of film director John Ford in Cape Elizabeth, Maine; he died in Palm Desert, California in 1973.
- 1894 Feb 3: Birthday of illustrator Norman Rockwell in New York City; he died in 1978 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
- 1894 Feb 8: Birthday of movie director King Vidor in Galveston, Texas; he died at his ranch in Paso Robles, California in 1982.
- 1894 May 27: Birthday of mystery author Dashiell Hammett in Maryland; he died in New York City in 1961.
- 1894 May-Aug: The Pullman Strike in Illinois.
- 1894 June 24: Congress passed a bill making Labor Day a national holiday, on the First Monday of September; soon signed into law by President Garfield.
- 1894 July 4: The Republic of Hawai'i declared itself into existence (to be annexed by the United States four years later).
- 1894 Aug 18: Congress established the Bureau of Immigration.
- 1894 Dec 8: Birthday of humorist James Thurber in Columbus, Ohio; he died in 1961 in New York City.
- 1895: Charles William Post introduced cereal-based Postum coffee substitute; introduced Grape-Nuts ready-to-eat cereal in 1897; introduced corn flakes cereal in 1908, later renamed Post Toasties; purchased Jell-O Company in 1925; company renamed General Foods on 24 July 1929.
- 1895: Introduction of condensed canned soup by Joseph A. Campbell Preserve Co.
- 1895 June 4: Henry Ford made a successful test run in his 'quadricycle' horseless carriage thru the pre-dawn streets of Detroit, Michigan.
- 1895 July 12: Birthday of inventor / thinker R. Buckminster Fuller in Milton, Massachusetts; he died in Los Angeles, California in 1983.
- 1895 Oct 4: Birthday of film comic Buster Keaton in Piqua, Kansas; he died at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, California in 1966.
- 1895 Oct 15: Patent for shredded wheat awarded to Henry D. Perky of Denver, Colorado; credited as the first mass-produced & nationally-distributed ready-to-eat cereal.
- 1896: Ice cream cone invented by New York City street vendor Italo Marchiony; received patent for cone-making mold in 1903.
- 1896: Leo Hirschfield introduced a chewy, chocolate-flavored candy at his store in New York City, named for his daughter 'Tootsie'.
- 1896 April 20: The first time people paid to see a movie in the United States, at Koster & Bial's Music Hall in New York City.
- 1896 July 9: William Jennings Bryan delivered his 'cross of gold' speech at the Democratic Party's National Convention in Chicago.
- 1896 Aug 17: Discovery of gold in Alaska, touching off the Klondike Gold Rush.
- 1896 Aug 29: The chef to visiting Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang invented the Chinese-American dish 'chop suey' in New York City.
- 1896 Sept 10: Launch of the King Arthur Flour brand.
- 1896 Sept 24: Birthday of author F. Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota; he died in 1940 in Hollywood, California.
- 1897: Jerome Monroe Smucker began selling prepared apple butter in Orrville, Ohio; incorporated J.M. Smucker Co. in 1921; introduced preserves & jellies in 1923.
- 1897 May 18: Birthday of movie producer-director Frank Capra in Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy; he died in La Quinta, California in 1991.
- 1897 May 28: Introduction of Jell-O® fruit-flavored gelatin dessert in LeRoy, New York.
- 1897 Sept 20: The New York Sun newspaper ran its famous editorial that declared "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
- 1897 Sept 25: Birthday of Pulitzer- & Nobel-winning author William Faulkner in New Albany, Mississippi; he died in 1962 in Byhalia, Mississippi.
- 1897 Nov: Ransom E. Olds received a patent for his 'horseless carriage'.
- 1898: Merger of eighteen west coast canning companies (including the Del Monte brand) to form the California Fruit Canners Association, which merged with three more canners in 1916 to form California Packing Corp.
- 1898: Pharmacist Caleb Bradham invented a new soft drink called Brad's Drink; renamed it Pepsi-Cola™ the same year; Pepsi-Cola™ soft drink was trademarked in June 1903.
- 1898 Jan 1: The five boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens & Staten Island were consolidated to form New York City.
- 1898 Jan 23: Birthday of cinema master Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein in Latvia; he died in Moscow, Soviet Union in 1948.
- 1898 January 23: Birthday of actor Randolph Scott in Orange County, Virginia; he died in 1987 in Beverly Hills, California.
- 1898 Feb 15: The U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously blew up in the harbor at Havana, Cuba; over 260 crewmen were killed.
- 1898 April 11: President McKinley asked Congress to authorize military intervention in Cuba.
- 1898 April 24: Spain declared war on the U.S. after America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
- 1898 April 25: The U.S. declared war on Spain.
- 1898 July 1: Teddy Roosevelt and his 'Rough Riders' charged up Kettle and San Juan hills in Cuba.
- 1898 July 4: The Republic of Hawai'i was annexed by the United States.
- 1898 Aug 12: Peace protocol was signed ending the Spanish-American War.
- 1898 Aug 29: Birthday of filmmaker Preston Sturges in Chicago, Illinois; he died in 1959 in New York City.
- 1898 Sept 26: Birthday of composer George Gershwin in Brooklyn, New York; he died in 1937 in Hollywood, California.
- 1898 Oct 18: American flag raised over Puerto Rico.
- 1898 Dec 10: Spanish-American War officially ended (Treaty of Paris).
- 1899: Introduction of Dentyne® gum by New York druggist Franklin V. Canning.
- 1899 April 11: The treaty ending the Spanish-American War was declared in effect.
- 1899 july 7: Birthday of movie director George Cukor in New York City; he died in Los Angeles, California in 1983.
- 1899 July 21: Birthday of author Ernest Hemingway in Oak Park, Illinois; he died in 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho.
- 1899 Nov 25: Birthday of author W.R. Burnett in Springfield, Ohio; he died in 1982 in Santa Monica, California.
- 1899 Dec 18: #6 worst one-day Dow-Jones Industrial Average decline of 8.72%.
- 1899 Dec 25: Birthday of actor Humphrey Bogart in New York City; he died in Los Angeles, California in 1957.
- 1900 March 14: Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.
- 1900 May 1: The Winter Quarters Mine near Scofield, Utah exploded due to accumulation of coal dust; at least 200 miners were killed, and possibly as many as 246; worst U.S. mining disaster at the time, now ranks fifth.
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- 1900 Oct 3: Birthday of author Thomas Wolfe in Asheville, North Carolina; he died in 1938.
- 1900 Oct 14: Birthday of management visionary Dr. Wm. Edwards Deming in Sioux Ciy, Iowa; he died in Washington, DC in 1993.
- 1900 Dec 23: Reginald A. Fessenden of Canada broadcast the first known transmission of speech over the radio, for a distance of about one mile.
- 1900 Dec 27: Militant prohibitionist Carry A. Nation's first public destruction of a saloon, the bar at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas.
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