Mar 03 Congress authorizes 20¢ coin, lasts only 3 years

Mar 01 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883

Mar 03 First recorded hockey game (Montréal)

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

Mar 07 The birth of Maurice Ravel, French composer

Mar 03 Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris France)

Mar 15 First US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested

Aug 26 The birth of John Buchan, Scottish author

Aug 25 Matthew Webb becomes first to swim English Channel (21h 45m)

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

Sep 01 The birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American novelist

Sep 11 First newspaper cartoon strip

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

Dec 05 Sir Arthur Currie, the first Canadian commander of the Canadian Corps in WW1 is born

Dec 07 Natives Sons of the West organized

Dec 17 Violent bread riots in Montreal

Dec 04 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail

Dec 30 Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms

Dec 04 The birth of Edgar Wallace, English writer

Dec 06 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes

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

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