''Yale Daily News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.

Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

Indian Wars: Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota

The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.

Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.

Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.

The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.

Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.

The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.

United States soldiers kill more than 200 Oglala Lakota people with four Hotchkiss guns in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.

Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.

The first American-made automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.

Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.

The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000

A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.

Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.

Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing more than 260. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.

Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date.

Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.

Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships set sail for Cuba.

The United States captures Guam from Spain.

U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawai`i to the United States.

United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.

Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.

Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.

Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.

The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal

A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.

Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.

Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.

"Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.

The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.