May 17 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Fort Lincoln

May 10 Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia

May 26 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration

May 02 Ross Barnes hit first homerun in the National League

May 13 Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens

Jan 16 Edmund H. Sears, author of It Came Upon A midnight Clear, dies.

Jan 03 The first free kindergarten in US opens in Florence MA

Jan 03 The first free kindergarten in US opens in Florence MA

Jan 12 The birth of Jack London, American author

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)

Apr 19 J C Watson discovers asteroid #161 Athor

Apr 18 Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hrs 32 min

Nov 23 The first intercollegiate football association was established -- in Springfield, MA.

Nov 23 Columbia, Harvard &Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association

Sep 06 Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed

Sep 06 Race riot in Charleston SC

Jun 25 Indian Chief Crazy Horse won the twohour Battle of Little Bighorn, Montana, wiping out the army of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. Custer, who led the battle against the Sioux Indian encampment, was among the 200+ casualties. Ironically, the only survivor of Custer’s forces was a horse, Comanche.

Jun 15 Sara Spencer (R) is first woman to address a US presidential cconvention

Jun 05 Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila

Jun 14 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise

Dec 06 The first crematorium in US begins operation, Washington PA

Dec 29 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula OH

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