Nov 30 First indoor softball game (Chicago)

Nov 01 The birth of L.S Lowry, English artist; famous for his matchstick figures

Nov 19 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Dying Detective" (BG)

Nov 23 Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt)was born: actor Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, Die

Nov 23 The birth of Boris Karloff, English actor

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)

Jun 21 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria

Jun 08 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #268 Adorea

Jun 07 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC

Dec 19 Jake Kilrain and Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw

Dec 01 Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao

Dec 01 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print "A Study In Scarlet"

Dec 01 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet"

Dec 02 The First public reading of a Charles Dickens book in US (New York NY)

Dec 27 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Blue Carbuncle" (BG)

Dec 28 Sir John Layton Jarvis, first British race horse trainer knighted

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)

Oct 18 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" (BG)

Jul 28 The birth of Marcel Duchamp, French artist

Jul 26 The first Esperanto book published

Jul 09 The first paper napkins are introduced at a dinner at a British hotel by John Dickenson, a stationery manufacturer.

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

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