Feb 27 US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner Presidential election
Feb 03 The piano piece 'chopsticks' is copyrighted
Feb 12 American railroad workers strike against wage reduction
Feb 12 First news dispatch by telephone, between Boston &Salem MA
Feb 09 US weather service established
Apr 13 A US newspaper, the Fort Benton Record, coins a slogan for the RCMP "They always get their man." Gee I always thought it was a Canadian eh saying
Apr 19 The opera "Les Cloches de Cornerville" is produced (Paris)
Apr 10 Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC
Apr 12 British annex Transvaal, in South Africa
Apr 24 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
Apr 02 The first Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
Nov 21 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention
Nov 29 Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph
Dec 22 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
Dec 02 The opera "Samson et Dalila" is produced (Rouen)
Dec 06 Thomas Edison demonstrates the first gramophone, with a recording of himself reciting 'Mary Had A Little Lamb'
Dec 26 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds first national convention
Dec 06 Washington Post publishes first edition
Dec 22 Montreal Quebec-Laval University opens a branch campus in Montreal, later the University of Montreal
Dec 28 John Stevens, WI, applies for patent on flour rolling mill
Dec 29 Grand Trunk Railroad workers strike to support fired members of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; strike broken by use of militia and unorganized workers.
May 08 The first Westminster Dog Show held
May 17 Edwin T Holmes installs first telephone switchboard burglar alarm
Jul 19 The first Wimbledon tennis championships held
Jul 02 The birth of Herman Hesse, German novelist
