Feb 15 First cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin
Feb 02 Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven CT
Feb 15 The birth of John Barrymore, American actor.
Feb 12 Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
Feb 07 The last unprotected (i.e., without padded gloves) heavyweight boxing championship fight occurs in Mississippi City.
Feb 02 The birth of James Joyce, Irish writer
Apr 03 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
Apr 18 The birth of Leopold Stokowski, British composer
Apr 10 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco &Hawaii)
Apr 19 J Palisa discovers asteroid #225 Henrietta
Dec 11 Boston's Bijou Theatre, first American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, first performance, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
Dec 06 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
Dec 16 The birth of Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer
May 23 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
May 15 May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania
May 06 Chinese Exclusion Act US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
May 13 Toba-Indians killed 20 members of French expedition
May 06 Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
May 06 Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria
May 09 Telegraph Hill RR Company organized
May 19 Commodore Shufeldt (USS Swatara) lands in Korea to negotiate first treaty between Korea and Western power
May 20 St Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens
Jul 28 The opera "Parsifal" is produced (Bayreuth)
Jul 12 The first ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC
Jul 13 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
