May 15 Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany

May 31 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar

May 18 The birth of Walter Gropius, American architect

May 27 Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow

May 30 Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12

May 01 "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his first Wild West Show

May 01 Amsterdam World's Fair opens

May 24 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur & Governor Cleveland

May 23 The birth of Douglas Fairbanks Snr, American film star

May 30 A rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge is in danger of collapsing triggers a stampede that kills 12

May 04 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Mississippi)

May 17 Buffalo Bill Cody's first wild west show premieres in Omaha

Jan 30 England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test

Jan 16 The U.S. Civil Service Commission is established.

Jan 06 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms

Jan 13 Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo

Jan 16 Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil Service system

Jan 20 Billy Barnes takes a hat-trick, England vs Australia MCG

Jan 13 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430

Jan 16 Congress passed a bill creating the civil service.

Jan 10 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee WI kills 71; General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt

Jan 10 The birth of Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian writer

Jan 06 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms

Feb 07 Lieutenant-Colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger

Feb 21 2nd French government of Ferry begins

Feb 27 Oscar Hammerstein patents first cigar-rolling machine

Feb 08 Louis Waterman begins experiments to invent the fountain pen

Feb 23 American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Philadelphia)

Feb 01 French Lieutenant-Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger

Feb 28 First US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)

Feb 23 The birth of Victor Flemming, American director

Feb 17 Vacant/Engaged toilet door sign patented

Feb 23 Alabama becomes first US state to enact an antitrust law

Feb 16 "Ladies Home Journal" begins publication

Feb 10 Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee WI, kills 71

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