Sep 20 The birth of Upton Sinclair, American novelist

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

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

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

Aug 21 American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY

Oct 15 Edison Electric Light Company incorporated

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

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

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.

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