Ken McCarthy defines cool as: 1) deep, 2) having lasting influence,
and 3) setting the standard that all others follow.
Well, Ken (and all others), check this out:
1895 – The Coolest Year Ever
Science
- D.D. Palmer founds Chiropractic profession
- Eugen Warming founds scientific discipline of ecology
- German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays
- Ernest A. Hummel invents the telediagraph (transmits electrically scanned pictures over a phone line)
- Emile Berliner launches Gramophone Company
The Arts
- Oscar Hammerstein opens Olympia Theatre, first theatre built in New York City’s Times Square district
- “America the Beautiful” published
- Henry David Thoreau, Poems of Nature, published posthumously
- Auguste and Louis Lumière display first moving picture film in Paris
Sports
- William G. Morgan invents Volleyball
- The Northern Rugby Football Union (now Rugby Football League) formed
- The first professional American football game is played
Politics, World Events, Architecture
- George B. Selden granted first U.S. patent for an automobile
- The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad begins operation in Chicago as the first electrically operated rapid transit system in the U.S.
- The New Haven and Hartford Railroad begins the first regular passenger service in the United States powered by electricity.
- Booker T. Washington delivers Atlanta Compromise speech
- Alfred Nobel signs last will and testament, setting aside estate to establish the Nobel Prize
That’s 200 words!
I believe that I have marked some of the most profound moments in history here.
Thank you!
Dr. Andrew Colyer
http://www.MuscleTestingTV.com
P.S. I would not be where I am today with my online business without Ken McCarthy. Thanks for all of your help, Ken!
