Mar 05 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains
Mar 26 Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
Mar 26 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
Mar 26 The Owens Valley, California area is rattled by a 7.8 earthquake one of the largest in the United States
Mar 01 Yellowstone becomes world's first national park
Mar 16 The first FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
Mar 22 Illinois becomes first state to require sexual equality in employment
Mar 16 The first FA Cup Final Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
Mar 07 -8º F in Boston MA
Aug 24 The birth of Sir Max Beerbohm, British writer and caricaturist
Aug 23 The first Japanese commercial ship visits SF, carrying tea
Sep 14 Britain pays the US $15« M for damages during Civil War
Sep 21 John Henry Conyers of SC becomes first black student at Annapolis
Feb 20 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
Feb 07 Alcorn A & M College opens
Feb 20 Silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
Feb 20 Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
Feb 22 Labor Reform Party formed at Columbus OH
Feb 20 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
Feb 27 Charlotte Ray, first Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U
Feb 15 In Victoria British Columbia, the Provincial Legislature meets for the first time as a Province of Canada
Feb 01 The birth of Paul Fort, French poet.
Feb 22 First national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH)
Apr 03 J C Watson discovers asteroid #119 Althaea
Apr 10 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #120 Lachesis
