Mar 21 US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
Mar 22 Young Men's Hebrew Association is founded in New York NY
Mar 10 Purdue University (Indiana) admits its first student
Aug 26 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee
Aug 10 The birth of Herbert Hoover, Former (31st) President of the US
Sep 01 Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
Feb 12 King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Island HI, is first king to visit US
Feb 23 Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
Feb 21 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
Feb 27 Baseball first played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds
Feb 21 Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier
Apr 06 The birth of Harry Houdini, Famous escape artist
Apr 25 The birth of Guglielmo Marconi, Inventor of radio
Apr 19 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
Apr 27 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms
Apr 05 Johann Strauss Sr's opera "Die Fledermaus", premieres in Vienna
Apr 21 J Palisa discovers asteroid #137 Meliboea
Nov 03 James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
Nov 30 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born (prematurely) on this day
Nov 07 The first cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast
Nov 19 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding the city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
Nov 30 The birth of Sir Winston Churchill, Former British Prime Minister and war time leader
Nov 24 Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire
Dec 15 David Kalakaua, king of the Sandwich Islands chain in the South Pacific and first regining king to visit the US, is received at the White House by US president Ulysses S. Grant.
Dec 24 Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875
