Inventor William Gray received a patent for creating the telephone that uses coins to operate it.
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Black soldiers were blamed for raiding a bar in Brownsville, Texas, US.
John Smith, famous for setting up the first permanent English colony in the New World, told the first stories about Jamestown.
The Mayan calendar started being used.
The Arica earthquake occurred in Peru and Ecuador.
The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper was published for the first time.
