Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

In which our heroine sets off on around the world journey by bicycle.

Targus, war, champagne, controversy, and the dangers of the open road.

Will she girdle the earth and win her wager?

Stay tuned.

The End

Let's talk about Annie London Dairy.

But first let's drop her into history.

In 1894, the pneumatic hammer and the bottle opener were both patented.

Horse racing starting gate and the vaccination for dip theory were both invented.

The first polio epidemic hit the United States.

Coca-Cola was first sold in bottles.

London's tower bridge opened after eight years of construction.

And London's first fine for drunk driving was given to a taxi driver.

The 1893 World's Fair serial killer H.H. Holmes was arrested in Boston and would be hanged two years later.

Norman Rockwell, Nikita Cruz-Chef, and Martha Graham were born.

Robert Lewis-Stevensson and Amelia Blumer both died.

And in 1894, Indy Cup Chopsky sets off to become the first woman to bicycle around the world.

Annie Cohen was born sometime in 1870.

Somewhere in Latvia we like to be very specific.

She's the third of the five children of Lieb and Bosch Cohen, also known as Levi and Beatrice Cohen.

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