Mar 12 Mississippi establishes first US state college for women

Mar 13 The birth of Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist

Mar 13 Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins

Mar 13 US adopts Standard Time

Mar 17 John Joseph Montgomery makes first glider flight, Otay CA

Aug 05 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)

Aug 28 The first known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD

Aug 10 In New York City, a 5.5 earthquake caused large cracks in walls at Amityville and Jamaica (intensity VII). The shock was felt strongly at New York City

Sep 20 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria

Sep 20 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP

Feb 18 General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum

Feb 18 Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"

Feb 01 First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published

Feb 07 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms

Feb 19 Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky &Indiana kill 800 people

Feb 26 British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II

Apr 20 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"

Apr 26 J Palisa discovers asteroid #236 Honoria

Apr 24 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)

Apr 08 The birth of Harry S.Truman, Former American President

Apr 22 Thomas Stevens starts first bike trip around the world (2 yrs 9 mos)

Nov 15 Colonization of Africa organized at international conference in Berlin

Nov 04 Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for first presidential term

Nov 25 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk

Nov 06 British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea

Nov 01 The Harbour Grace Railway, the first railway on Newfoundland, is opened for traffic between St. Johns and Harbour Grace. The last spike was driven by Prince George, later to become King George V, who was at the time visiting Newfoundland as a midshipman aboard H.M.S. Cumberland.

Nov 22 T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper

Dec 06 Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Washington DC

Dec 09 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate

May 08 Harry S Truman, later to become the 33rd president of the United States, is born near Lamar, MO

May 17 Alaska becomes a US territory

May 24 Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party form People's Party in the US

May 01 Construction begins on Chicago's first skyscraper (10 stories)

May 14 Anti-Monopoly party forms in the US

May 29 The first steam cable trams start in highgate

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