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Alexander Graham Bell had a successful experiment with the "telephone" that he had created, saying, "Mr. Watson- come here- I want you."
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Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The Tuskegee Institute was founded for helping young African Americans in Alabama and America.
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Grover Cleveland won the 1884 presidential election, thus becoming president after previously being governor of New York.
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In 1888, Kaiser Wilhelm II rose to the throne and become monarch of Germany. Wilhelm II lead Germany in World War I.
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Yosemite National Park in California became an official National Park on October 1st, 1890. Yosemite National Park is best known for its large trees and other wildlife and plants.
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Frederick Douglass, a well-known American reformer and abolitionist passed away on February 20, 1895, in Washington, D.C., just hours after attending a meeting for women's suffrage.
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Congregational minister Charles Sheldon publishes "In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?", a highly influential faith-based novel that had a large impact on American societies.
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In 1900, American forces joined a group that fought against the Boxer Rebellion, a movement that opposed businesses and missionaries in China, in order to prevent the closing of trade.
