(Friday, October 4, 1895) — The first U.S. Open Men’s Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association was held today at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.
Horace Rawlins (pictured above) won the inaugural U.S. Open title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Willie Dunn.
Video: 'Alfred Dreyfus Documentary | Full video |' (Dec. 22, 1894, at 8:55)
(Saturday, December 22, 1894; during the Dreyfus Affair) — French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason today in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of Antisemitism (Dreyfus was eventually vindicated).
Video: 'Weather History: The Great Hinckley Fire of 1894'
(Saturday, September 1, 1894, 3:00 p.m. CDT) — The Great Hinckley Fire destroyed Hinckley, Minnesota, and five other communities today, killing more than 400 people including Thomas P. “Boston” Corbett, the Union soldier who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth.
(Thursday, March 22, 1894) — Hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played today with home team Montreal defeating Ottawa 3-1 at Victoria Rink.
Video: 'Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, Jan. 7, 1894'
(Sunday, January 7, 1894) — One of the earliest motion picture experiments took place today at the Thomas Edison studio in West Orange, New Jersey, as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (a.k.a. Fred Ott’s Sneeze) was filmed taking a pinch of snuff and sneezing.
Video: 'Katherine Lee Bates -America the Beautiful'
(Saturday, July 22, 1893) — Wellesley College professor Katharine Lee Bates today visited the summit of Pikes Peak, where she was inspired to write the original version of her poem “America the Beautiful.” Samuel A. Ward’s music to the poem would be published in 1910.
Video: 'Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker (BBC Royal Opera House)'
(Sunday, December 18, 1892) — Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker publicly premiered today at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Video: 'Wild West - The Dalton Gang's Last Raid, 1892'
(Wednesday, October 5, 1892) — The Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped out today while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.
(Wednesday, July 8, 1891) — Future U.S. President Warren G. Harding, 25, today married Florence Kling DeWolfe, 30, a divorcée and the mother of a young son, at his home in Marion, Ohio.
