Mar 24 Oscar Straus appointed first Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)

Mar 03 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller

Mar 23 More than 80 miners die in gas explosion in colliery at Bulli, NSW.

Mar 08 The telescopic fishing rod, made of steel tubes inside one another, was patented by Everett Horton.

Mar 08 Everett Horton, Connecticut, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes

Mar 23 The birth of Juan Gris, Spanish painter

Mar 24 The birth of Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor

Mar 15 Michigan appoints first salaried game and fish warden in US(William Alden Smith)

Mar 13 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs

Mar 03 American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton IA

Aug 12 Thomas Edison makes the first sound recording

Aug 10 Excursion train crashes killing 101 in Chatsworth, Illinois

Aug 31 Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)

Sep 15 Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution

Sep 26 Gramophone patented in Germany

Sep 30 Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup

Sep 30 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Five Orange Pips" (BG)

Feb 03 To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act

Feb 22 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati

Feb 20 Germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance

Feb 26 George Lohmann took first 8-wicket haul in Test Crickets, 8-35 at SCG

Feb 08 Dawes Act passed (Indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)

Feb 01 Harvey Wilcox of Kansas subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)

Feb 23 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco

Feb 23 French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die

Feb 21 First US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)

Feb 05 Snow falls on San Francisco

Feb 04 Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads

Feb 21 Oregon becomes first US state to make Labor Day a holiday

Apr 02 Juneau Alaska the US seizes Canadian sealing ships in North Pacific (boy they sure pick on us)

Apr 05 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller

Apr 14 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG)

Apr 26 Cardston, Alberta Joseph Ora Card and a small group of Mormons found the community that will become Cardston, Alberta;

Apr 26 Huntsville Electric Co established to sell electricity

Apr 04 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia KS)

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