Jun 13 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #198 Ampella

Jun 16 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theatre NYC

Dec 21 The birth of Joseph Stalin, Russian revolutionary leader

Dec 13 First federal fish hatching steamer launched (Wilmington Delaware)

Dec 31 Edison gives first public demonstration of his incandescent lamp

Dec 31 The opera "The Pirates of Penzance" is produced (New York NY)

Dec 20 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park

Dec 05 Daniel and Thomas Connolly and Thomas McTighe received a patent for the first automatic telephone system

Dec 18 The birth of Paul Klee, Swiss Painter

Dec 31 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)

Dec 27 The birth of Sydney Greenstreet, American actor

Dec 28 North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)

Aug 12 First National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)

Aug 05 First game of night football at Melbourne Cricket Ground, under gas-lights.

Aug 12 The Intercolonial Railway gains access to Quebec by purchasing the Grand Trunk line between Quebec and Rivière du Loup.

Oct 02 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)

Oct 26 The birth of Leon Trotsky, Communist leader

Oct 21 Thomas Edison invents the electric light.

Jul 27 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #200 Dynamene

Jul 09 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #199 Byblis

Jul 08 USS Jeannette departs San Francisco to explore Arctic.

Jul 17 The first railroad opens in Hawaii

Mar 01 Library of Hawaii founded

Mar 03 The first female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)

Mar 03 US geological survey director authorized in Department of the Interior

Mar 14 Revolutionary physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.

Mar 11 Guelph Ontarioincorporated as a city; settlement founded by John Galt.

Mar 14 The birth of Albert Einstein, Austrian scientist

Mar 03 The United States Geological Survey was established

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