Mar 24 HMS Eurydice, a training ship, sank in a freak squall off Ventnor, Isle of Wight with the loss of 330 lives. Only 2 were saved.

Mar 26 Hastings College of Law founded

Mar 20 Postmaster-General John Delaney and meteorologist John Higgins install Newfoundland's first telephone.

Mar 24 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost

Mar 13 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their first golf match

Mar 03 Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)

Mar 22 In Victoria BC R. B. McMicking demonstrates Victoria's first 2 telephones

Mar 26 Sabi Game Reserve, world's first official designated game reserve, opens

Mar 31 Jack Johnson is first black to hold a heavyweight boxing title

Mar 27 Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect whose designs include the Albert memorial in Hyde Park, London, dies.

Aug 21 American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY

Sep 30 First Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii

Sep 20 The birth of Upton Sinclair, American novelist

Sep 01 The first female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)

Feb 19 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph

Feb 19 Thomas Edison receives a patent for his cylinder-playing music player (forerunner of the "modern day" phonograph).

Feb 28 US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate

Feb 02 Greece declares war on Turkey

Feb 16 The Silver Dollar was introduced as a U.S. coin.

Feb 10 Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres

Feb 11 First weekly Weather report published in UK

Feb 12 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)

Feb 10 Peace of Zanjón

Feb 22 Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH)

Feb 21 The first U.S. telephone directory is distributed (District Telephone Co., New Haven, CT).

Apr 28 The birth of Lionel Barrymore, American actor

Apr 06 Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #186 Celuta

Apr 10 Calif St Cable Car RR Co starts service

Apr 21 The ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia

Apr 11 J Coggia discovers asteroid #187 Lamberta

Dec 01 First White House telephone installed

Dec 26 John Wanamaker installed electric lights in his department store in Philadelphia.

Dec 26 First US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia

Dec 28 Pope Leo XIII encyclical on socialism

May 25 Gilbert &Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore" premieres in London

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