Mar 24 The first telephone call between New York &Chicago

Mar 20 Unity treaty of Paris signed; protects industrial property

Mar 03 Congress authorizes the first steel vessels in US navy

Mar 04 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi

Mar 01 Nicholas Flood Davin publishes the first issue of the Regina Leader

Mar 19 Jan Matzeliger invents first machine to manufacture entire shoes

Mar 31 Utrecht begins water pipe system

Aug 29 Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise in the English Channel 32 hrs after the explosion

Aug 10 First train reaches Calgary.

Aug 27 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons

Aug 26 Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000

Aug 29 Thomas Ahearn, head of the Ottawa Street Railway Company, presides over a demonstration of his pioneering electric stove at the Windsor Hotel in Ottawa. This is believed to be the world's very first dinner cooked on an all-electric stove.

Aug 19 The birth of Gabrielle (aka Coco) Chanel, French designer

Aug 27 The volcano Krakatoa erupts and the resulting explosion is heard 2200 miles away in Australia.

Aug 26 The Indonesian island of Krakatoa explodes, spewing volcanic ash and debris 50 miles into the air and killing 36,000 people many from tidal waves over 100 feet high.

Sep 24 National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky

Sep 08 Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont

Sep 22 The Grand Trunk Railway acquires the 452 mile Midland Railway.

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

Apr 13 Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism

Apr 12 The birth of Imogen Cunningham, American photographer

Apr 16 Paul Kruger becomes the first President of South Africa

Apr 01 The birth of Lon Chaney, American actor

Apr 03 State Premier Thomas McIlwraith claims British New Guinea as a Queensland possession; the claim was later disallowed by Britain.

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