Nov 21 The birth of Harpo Marx, American comedian

Nov 20 William Bundy patents the timecard clock

Sep 25 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (BG)

Sep 12 The birth of Maurice Chevalier, French actor

Sep 04 George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a US patent for his camera that uses roll film.

Sep 26 The birth of T.S Eliot, Poet and playwright

Sep 18 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Sign of Four" (BG)

Jun 03 "Casey at the Bat" published (SF Examiner)

Jun 25 Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison

Jun 13 Congress creates the Department of Labor

Jun 01 California gets its first seismograph

Dec 11 French Panama Canal company fails

Dec 24 The birth of Michael Curtiz, American director

Aug 19 First beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins

Aug 25 Henry Slocum wins US Lawn Tennis Assn singles title

Aug 31 First 'Jack the Ripper' victim discovered in Buck's Row, London

Aug 12 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes first motor tour

Aug 15 The birth of T.E Lawrence, 'Lawrence of Arabia'; soldier and author

Aug 07 Patent for revolving door granted

Aug 30 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day

Aug 31 North Canterbury, New Zealand a 7+ earthquake in northern Canterbury, some 100 kilometers from Christchurch, caused the partial collapse of the cathedral's spire

Aug 31 Jack the Ripper claims his first victim as the body of Mary Ann Nicholls is found in London.

Oct 01 A new Chinese Exclusion Act voted by Congress, forbids Chinese workers who have left the United States to return

Oct 10 Teetotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)

Oct 30 First ballpoint pen patented

Oct 16 The birth of Eugene O'Neill, American playwright and Nobel prize winner for literature

Oct 09 Public admitted to Washington Monument

Oct 09 The Washington Monument opens to the public for the first time.

Jul 11 Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall

Jul 11 118ø F (48ø C), Bennett, Colorado (state record)

Jul 23 The birth of Raymond Chandler, American author

Jul 15 Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for first time in 1,000 years

Jul 04 The first organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz

Mar 13 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages

Mar 14 2nd largest snowfall in New York NY history (21")

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