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).
