1876
Alexander Graham Bell
invents the telephone
1877
Thomas Edison invents
the phonograph
1881
The Red Cross is established by Clara Barton
1882
Famous American outlaw Jesse James dies
1883
Buffalo Bill Cody’s first Wild West show
1884
The Ringling Brothers Circus premiers
1886
Coca-Cola is made and sold for 5 cents a bottle
1887
The first game of softball is
played in Chicago
1888
The Kodak camera
is invented
1889
John Muir campaigns to save Yosemite Valley in California
1890
The painter Vincent
Van Gogh dies
1891
The game of Basketball
is invented
1896
The Yukon Gold Rush begins
1901
Connecticut passes the first speed limit law
1903
The Wright brothers take
their first flight
1905
Norway separates
from Sweden
1903
International Morse Code adopts SOS as the official emergency signal