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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. His patent was sent in on February 14 and it was approved on March 7. -
Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Samuel Tilden after the election was sent to the House and the Senate. -
Grover Cleveland defeated James G. Blaine by 37 electoral votes. Cleveland was the first Democrat president since 1856. -
Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884. It would become cemented in great American literature. It is known as one of the more controversial books today because of "racial slurs." -
Dr. James Naismith invented the game of basketball when he was trying to create a game that can be played indoors and that was less physical than football. Basketball is now America's third most popular sport. -
This was a response towards the Pullman Palace Car Company after they cut wages by around 25%. Over 125,000 workers had quit by the end of June. Federal troops were sent to Chicago to deal with the strike. National Guardsman shot into a crowd after they were assaulted killing between 4 and 30 people. The strike ended on July 20, 1894. -
Utah became the 45th state of the United States. -
This war was fought between America and Spain over the Independence of Cuba. America won the war and Spain renounced all rights to Cuba and the U.S. gained Guam and Puerto Rico as territories.