Tilden. The election of 1876 will remain the most controversial in American history for the next 124 years, until overshadowed by the race between George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000.
1882: John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust, first major industrial monopoly, is established.1887: John Emerich Edward Dalbert-Acton, a leader of the opposition to the papal dogma of infallibility, observes, in a letter to Cambridge University professor Mandell Creighton, that "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."1893: Henry Ford builds his first automobile.1897: Zionist movement is established under the leadership of Theodor Herzl.1897: English physicist J. J. Thomson identifies the electron, the first subatomic particle to be discovered.1897: In the midst of a nationwide depression, Mrs. Bradley Martin, daughter of Carnegie Steel magnate Henry Phipps, throws a lavish party at New York's recently opened Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where she has a suite decorated to look like Versailles. Her 900 guests, dressed in Louis XV period costumes, consume 60 cases of champagne.1897: News of gold discoveries along the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory sparks a gold rush, and thousands flock to Alaska.1899: The Second Anglo-Boer War, often known simply as the Boer War begins.1903: Henry Ford establishes the Ford Motor Company.1907:
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