The first issue of Vogue magazine was published.
Pudge Heffelfinger played his first paid game, making him the first professional American Football player.
Ida B. Wells published 'Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.'
The detective novel 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' by Arthur Conan Doyle was published.
The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in American schools.
Notorious American outlaws, The Dalton Brothers, set out to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.
The first-ever American football game played at night occurred in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Jupiter's fifth moon.
The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper was published for the first time.
Abercrombie & Fitch opened their first store in Manhattan, New York City, US.
The Sierra Club was formed.
The General Electric Company was formed in New York.
Oscar Wilde's ''Lady Windermere Fan" premiered at St James Theatre, London, UK.
The Coca-Cola Company was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
Black men were chased away by gunmen after trying to rescue white survivors during a mine explosion.
Ellis Island opened as a US immigration inspection station.
