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The Battle of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, occurs in the last major battle between United States troops and Indians. Hundreds of Indian men, women, and children are slain, along with twenty-nine soldiers.
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James Naismith invents basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts. Within 10 years the indoor team sport was very popular not only among YMCA programs, but also at colleges, high schools and athletic clubs
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More than 12 million immigrants would be processed on the island during those years. Ellis Island replaced Castle Garden, in Manhattan, as the New York immigration center.
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The New York Stock Exchange collapses, starting the financial panic of 1893
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The Ferris wheel is introduced at the World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois
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J. Frank and Charles Duryea build the first successful gasoline-powered automobile in the United States.
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Economic depression which began the previous year leaves 1 in 5 American workers without a job.
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W.E.B. DuBois becomes the first African American to obtain a doctorate degree at Harvard University
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The first modern Olympic Games is held in Athens, Greece. Thirteen nations participated, including the United States of America. It was held in Panathinaiko Stadium and had originated from an 1894 congress organized by Pierre de Coubertin who established the International Olympic Committee
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Henry Ford drives his first automobile the Quadricycle through the streets of Detroit, Michigan.
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The escalator is invented by Jesse W. Reno and installed as an amusement ride at Coney Island, New York.
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The Spanish-American War was a four-month conflict between Spain and the United States, Americans supported the idea of freeing an oppressed people controlled by the Spanish. At war's end, America emerged victorious with newly acknowledged respect as a world power.
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Cuba liberated from Spain by US.US occupies till 1902
