May 20 International Bureau of Weights & Measures established by treaty

May 16 Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000

May 01 238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities

May 07 German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed

May 17 In the first running of the Kentucky Derby today, Aristides wins in 2:37 75

May 17 In the first running of the Kentucky Derby today, Aristides wins in 2 37 75

Jan 05 CDR Edward Lull begins expedition to locate best ship canal route across Panama.

Jan 05 Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris

Jan 05 President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg MS

Jan 26 Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green

Jan 05 CDR Edward Lull begins expedition to locate best ship canal route across Panama.

Jan 14 The birth of Albert Schweitzer, French medical missionary and Nobel Prize winner

Jan 05 Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris

Jan 25 Anti-slavery society formed in NY

Jan 05 President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg MS

Jan 22 The birth of D.W Griffith, American film director/producer

Feb 04 Princess Louise marries Prince Philip von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha in Belgium

Feb 25 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill

Apr 10 Regina Saskatchewan the Northwest Mounted Police ordered to build a post on the site of the city of Calgary.

Apr 26 First scheduled train over the Prince Edward Island Railway from Charlottetown to Georgetown.

Apr 01 The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to print a daily weather chart.

Apr 17 "Snooker" (variation of pool) invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain

Nov 25 Financial difficulties force the ruler of Egypt to seel his shares in the Suez Canal to England and France giving them effective control of the waterway

Nov 07 Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa

Nov 13 National Bowling Association organized in NYC

Nov 04 "Pacific" collides with "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 dies

Sep 09 Lotta's Fountain (Kearny &Market) dedicated

Sep 01 The birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American novelist

Sep 11 First newspaper cartoon strip

Jun 01 Ceremony of turning the first sod on the Canadian Pacific Railway on the left bank of the Kamistiquia River in the townsite of Fort William about four miles from the river's mouth.

Jun 09 The birth of Sir Henry Dale, English physiologist and Nobel prize winner

Jun 03 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #144 Vibilia ‘ Adeona

Jun 08 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #146 Lucina

Jun 05 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens

Jun 19 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio

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