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
