Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent, granted weeks earlier, faced its first major legal challenge as rival inventors pressed competing claims through March 1877.

An ancient Egyptian obelisk, nearly 3,500 years old, is loaded aboard a specially built iron cylinder ship for its perilous voyage to London.

Lakota leader Sitting Bull led his followers across the border into Canada, seeking refuge from the U.S. Army following the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Spencer Gore won the inaugural Wimbledon gentlemen's singles final, launching the world's oldest tennis tournament before a crowd of about 200.

Oglala Lakota leader Crazy Horse's band neared final confrontation with U.S. forces months after his surrender, amid growing tensions at the Red Cloud Agency.

Thomas Edison filed for a patent on the phonograph, the first device capable of both recording and reproducing sound, after unveiling it to the press at his Menlo Park laboratory.

Thomas Edison filed for a patent on the phonograph, the first device capable of both recording and reproducing sound.