Nov 14 Charles J Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination

Nov 15 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)

Sep 18 Chicago Tribune reports on a televide experiment

Sep 20 Chester A Arthur sworn in as president

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

Dec 08 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850

Dec 25 The ship Lord Bute, left Newcastle on Tyne and was not heard of again. It is speculated that she was lost with all hands the following day.

Dec 19 The opera "Herodiade" is produced (Brussels)

Aug 12 The birth of Cecil B. De Mille, Hollywood producer/director

Aug 04 122ø F (50ø C), Seville, Spain (European record)

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

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

Mar 04 California becomes first state to pass plant quarantine legislation

Mar 04 South African President Kruger accepts ceasefire

Mar 13 In Russia, Czar Alexander II is killed near the Winter Palace by a hand-bomb thrown by a member of the "People’s Will," a militant wing of the Narodniki movement, which advocated socialist reform in Russia and the elimination of the central government

Mar 04 James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th President

Mar 04 Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet", first case together

Mar 23 Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die

Mar 23 Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end first Boer war

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