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The first commercially successful, automatic, washing machine,was granted U.S. Patent No. 966,677.
Called the "Thor" it was marketed by the Hurley Machine Company..
This may seem like a mundane entry here, but it was actually a real milestone and would have major repercussions in that the machine was part of the arrival of domestic machinery that would be responsible for women being freed from household chores to a significant degree, making their labor then available to the workplace, and thereby forever changing it. Not all of these developments, moreover were really good ones.
We've done major thread on this topic:
Women in the Workplace: It was Maytag that took Rosie the Riveter out of the domestic arena, not World War Two
The invention, we'd note, also had an impact, ultimately, on clothing. Wool clothing, which does not lend itself to being washed by machine, dominated much of the market at the time. While it wouldn't happen overnight, the washing machine gave washable cotton an advantage.
Mayor William Jay Gaynor of New York was wounded in an attempted assassination attempt by a disgruntled former city employee.
Roald Amundsen left Norway on his third expedition to the North Pole, or so he claimed
Actually, Amundsen and his crew were planning to race against Britain's Robert F. Scott to reach the South Pole.
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