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1886: Internal-combustion-powered car patented by Benz.On this day in 1886, German mechanical engineer Karl Benz—whose original three-wheeled Motorwagen ran for the first time in 1885—patented the first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine.More events on this day1924:The first machine for rolling ice cream cones was patented by Carl Rutherford Taylor of Cleveland, Ohio. |
1919:The Prohibition (Eighteenth) Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified and went into effect the following year. |
1900:The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs was organized in Philadelphia. |
1880:American actor and comedian W.C. Fields was born in Philadelphia. |
1819:British East India Company administrator Sir Stamford Raffles established the port of Singapore. |
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