Mar 17 General Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux Indian camps

Mar 04 US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap

Mar 25 Glasgow first soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0)

Mar 07 Telephone patented by Alexander Graham Bell in the United States

Mar 07 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians

Mar 10 The first telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)

Mar 16 Nelly Saunders &Rose Harland fight first female boxing match (New York)

Mar 07 Battle at Gura Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians

Mar 07 Alexander Graham Bell of Salem, MA received a patent for his invention, the telephone.

Aug 12 Off Newport Rhode Island, the US yacht Madeleine beats the Countess Dufferin from Toronto in two straight heats in the 4th America's Cup.

Aug 12 Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup

Aug 01 Colorado becomes 38th state

Aug 01 Wild Bill Hickok shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's

Aug 08 Thomas Edison patents mimeograph

Aug 02 Wild Bill Hickok draws the Dead Man's Hand - a pair of aces and a pair of eights, when he was shot

Aug 16 The opera "Siegfried" is produced (Bayreuth)

Aug 07 The birth of Mata Hari, Dutch born dancer and spy

Aug 14 Prairie View State University forms

Aug 13 Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified

Sep 06 Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed

Sep 06 Race riot in Charleston SC

Feb 03 Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods company, manufacturing first official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, &football

Feb 12 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop

Feb 14 A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents; Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor

Feb 22 Johns Hopkins University opens

Feb 15 Historic Elm at Boston blown down

Feb 24 Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," premieres in Oslo

Feb 02 The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs is formed in New York City.

Feb 18 Direct telegraph link established between Britain & New Zealand

Feb 07 President Grant's private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring

Apr 12 Founding of Beaver Steamship Line, formerly the Canadian Shipping Co., with three new iron-screw steamers to replace the old sailing ships; the Montreal to Liverpool service is sold to the CPR in 1903, and is the origin of CP Ships.

Apr 26 J Perrotin discovers asteroid #163 Erigone

Apr 21 Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #162 Laurentia

Apr 11 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized

Apr 25 Chicago Cubs first NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)

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