1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of The Copper Beeches" (BG)

1893 Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)

1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville PA

1894 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Empty House" (BG)

1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices

1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the 3 Students" (BG)

1895 Writer Oscar Wylde is arrested

1896 1st modern Olympic Games officially open in Athens

1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails

1902 Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte", premieres in Paris France

1902 Soccer match riot between Scotland & England kills 25

1905 James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire", premieres in London

1906 St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"

1907 A Kopff discovers asteroid #632 Pyrrha

1908 British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns

1911 MCC tour match vs Jamaica finishes in a tie

1911 W W Aster acquires the Daily Observer

1911 Waldorf W Aster acquires the Daily Observer

1913 S Belyavskij and G Neujmin discovers asteroid #749 Malzovia

1915 French begin Wo‰vre-offensive

1915 Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title

1916 French troops occupy Bois de Caillette

1919 Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann

1919 Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana

1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews

1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions

1922 WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions

1923 Firestone Company puts their inflatable tires into production

1924 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2235 Vittore

1925 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election

1925 Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in North Carolina due to an ulcer

1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in the 100 & 200 meter freestyle

1929 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1116 Catriona

1929 Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact

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