May 31 US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation

May 04 Phonograph shown for first time at Grand Opera House

May 02 US stops minting 20¢ coin

May 14 Vaseline is first sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)

May 27 Australia Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19

May 23 Attorney John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia

May 19 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield

May 31 German battleship Grosser Kurfürst sinks, 284 killed

May 24 CA Parker (Harvard) wins first American bike race, Beacon Park Boston

Jul 09 An improved corncob pipe patented by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo

Jul 03 John Wise of Lancaster, PA was the pilot for the maiden flight of a dirigible.

Jul 20 The first telephone introduced in Hawaii

Jul 13 Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano

Jun 04 Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes

Jun 18 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #188 Menippe

Jun 15 The first attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground

Jun 04 Turkey turns Cypress over to the British.

Jun 05 The birth of Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary

Jan 14 The first private connection by telephone in Great Britain is made on the Isle of Wight when Queen Victoria speaks to Thomas Biddulph.

Jan 06 The birth of Carl Sandburg, American poet

Jan 10 US Senate proposes female suffrage

Jan 14 US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional

Jan 08 Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent & Henry Morton Stanley

Jan 28 First telephone exchange (New Haven CT) , and George W Coy hired as first full-time telephone operator

Jan 22 Canada wins right to decide whether or not to be included in British trade treaties

Jan 25 Turkish steamer becomes the first ship to be sunk by a torpedo, fired from a Russian boat

Oct 15 Edison Electric Light Company incorporated

Oct 26 Australian bushranger Ned Kelly shoots and kills three police officers at Stringybark Creek, Victoria.

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