The White Star Liner SS Ionic was launched at the Queen’s Island in Belfast.
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Namco installed the first Pac-Man arcade machine in Shibuya, Tokyo.
The Wright Brothers were granted a patent for their 'flying machine' after applying for it three years earlier.
Senator Brooks from South Carolina used a cane to hit a Massachusetts Senator, Charles Sumner, after Sumner criticized slave owners.
Two new moons of Saturn were found in photos from the Hubble Space Telescope by Astronomers Amanda S. Bosh and Andrew S. Rivkin.
When Cubs' player Billy Sunday played his first game, he struck out four times.