LIFE 1895
Historical Highlights from 1895 :
- Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created at Holyoke, MA.
- The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
- Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech.
- George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
- Chicago Times-Herald race: The first American automobile race in history (Later lampooned by LIFE magazine).
- W. E. B. Du Bois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
- The gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury is saved when J. P. Morgan and the Rothschilds loan $65 million worth of gold to the United States government.
- Babe Ruth, baseball player, is born.
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