May 24 Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die

May 21 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

May 25 The birth of Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer

May 12 Tunisia becomes a French protectorate

May 24 The Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London, Ontario, killing 200 passengers

May 17 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC

May 12 Treaty of Bardo, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate

May 02 Portage La Prairie Manitoba, Canadian Pacific Railway starts building its prairie section of track; first sod turned for the CPR as a company line; first rail also laid at Fort William.

May 17 Revised version of New Testament

Jul 04 Brooker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute

Jul 14 On a ranch near old Fort Sumner, New Mexico, the infamous Western outlaw known as "Billy the Kid" was shot to death by Pat Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County

Jul 01 First international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB

Jul 15 William "Billy the Kid" Bonney killed by Pat Garrett

Jul 20 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops

Jul 13 American outlaw Billy the Kid is shot to death

Jul 01 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens

Jul 02 Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker

Jun 24 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico

Jun 30 Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia

Jun 14 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass

Jan 28 Battle at Laing's Neck Natal Boers beat superior powered British

Jan 01 Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes

Jan 01 Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes

Jan 02 Frederick Varley painter, born at Sheffield England; he was a founding member of Canada's "Group of Seven" artists

Jan 02 Frederick Varley painter, born at Sheffield England; he was a founding member of Canada's "Group of Seven" artists

Jan 26 Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl

Jan 18 The birth of Gaston Gallimard, French publisher

Oct 15 The birth of Sir P.G Wodehouse, Novelist, creator of 'Jeeves and Wooster'

Oct 04 The player piano was invented by Edward Leveaux of Sussex, England, who received a patent for it this day.

Oct 25 The birth of Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor

Oct 26 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az

Oct 14 Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, known locally as 'Disaster Day', some 129 men and boys, one in three of the Berwickshire town's fishermen lost their lives in a hurricane

Oct 15 The first American fishing magazine, American Angler published

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