In 1895 Our Grandfather Is Born And ........

In today’s post, I thought I would include some interesting historical tidbits for the year 1895, when our grandfather, John Thomas Goodwin was born.  It is interesting to see what was going on in the world that he grew up in.  

He was born on November 1, 1895 in the small community of Denver,Tennessee in Humphrey’s County where he lived most of his childhood until the family relocated to Corning, Arkansas.  He was born to Felix Grundy Goodwin and Amanda Warren Goodwin and he was welcomed home by Bertha (10), Henry (7) and Laura (3).

In the year 1895:

Felix Faure is installed as president of France.

The moving picture projector is patented.

First US patent granted for gasoline driven car.

First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii sent. 

America's first auto race: 6 cars, 55 miles, average of only 7 mph! Inventor J Frank Duryea battled snow and breakdowns to win the race from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois in just over ten hours.

Volleyball invented by W.G. Morgan in Massachusetts.

Congress authorizes a US Mint in Denver, Colorado.

Cuban war for independence begins.

First pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 and won 12-0)

Alfred Nobel’s will establishes the Nobel prizes.

Booker T. Washington (education pioneer) delivers “Atlanta Compromise” address.

Physicist and chemist, Marie Curie, weds physicist Pierre Curie in France.

Louis Pasteur dies at the age of 72.

First cartoon strip is printed in a newspaper.

November 8, 1895 German scientist, Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen and earns first of Nobel Prizes. The first x-ray image is of his wife’s hand.