Mar 10 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria

Mar 23 Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin)

Mar 10 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare &religious activity

Mar 04 New York Daily Graphic publishes first half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan

Mar 30 The birth of Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright

Mar 10 Commissioner George Scott Railton and seven women officers of English ‘General’ William Booth’s army landed in New York on this day to officially put the Salvation Army to work in the United States.

Mar 24 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut

Mar 31 The First town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash IN)

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

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

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

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"

May 11 The birth of Irving Berlin, American composer

May 10 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria

Jul 21 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY League merge to form National Association of Colored Woman

Jul 19 SF Public Library starts lending books

Jul 23 The first commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich

Jul 27 Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson was wounded, breaks out

Jun 27 The birth of Helen Keller, American author

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

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