May 11 The birth of Irving Berlin, American composer

May 10 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria

Jan 09 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days

Jan 27 Thomas A. Edison receives a U.S. patent for the electric incandescent light bulb.

Jan 26 The birth of Douglas MacArthur, American wartime general

Jan 17 The birth of Mack Sennett, American director

Jan 31 An Ice Railway is opened between Longueuil and Montreal by the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway. A railway track was placed on large timbers laid on the ice of the St. Lawrence River. During the summer months the QMO&O used a car ferry. An ice railway was laid each winter until 1883.

Jan 31 An Ice Railway is opened between Longueuil and Montreal by the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway. A railway track was placed on large timbers laid on the ice of the St. Lawrence River. During the summer months the QMO&O used a car ferry. An ice railway was laid each winter until 1883.

Jan 06 Record snow cover in Seattle-120cm

Jan 01 Building of Panama Canal, begins

Jan 27 Thomas A. Edison receives a U.S. patent for the electric incandescent light bulb.

Jan 06 Record snow cover in Seattle-120cm

Jan 21 The first US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis TN

Jan 21 Jeffree & Pendray install Victoria's*(British Columbia) first business telephones; W. J. Jeffree's Clothing store, W. I. Pendray's Soap Factory

Jan 01 Building of Panama Canal, begins

Feb 29 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens

Feb 02 SS Strathleven arrives in London with first Australian frozen mutton

Feb 16 American Society of Mechanical Engineers founded, New York NY

Feb 17 The Russian tsar survives an attempted bomb assassination

Apr 07 V Knorre discovers asteroid #215 Oenone

Apr 10 J Palisa discovers asteroid #216 Kleopatra

Apr 24 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England

Nov 12 Mines explosion at Stellerton Nova Scotia in the Foord Pit kills 50

Nov 24 Southern University established

Nov 02 James A Garfield (R) elected President

Sep 09 President Hayes visits SF

Sep 07 Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters

Sep 30 Henry Draper takes that first photograph of the Orion Nebula

Jun 27 The birth of Helen Keller, American author

Dec 06 The Edmonton Bulletin, the first newspaper in Edmonton and in the province of Alberta begins publication

Dec 20 New York's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"

Aug 14 Australia's first soccer club, The Wanderers, plays its first match, against Kings School, Parramatta, NSW.

Aug 14 Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed

Oct 27 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday

Oct 01 John Phillip Sousa becomes leader of Marine Corps Band

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