Mar 15 6 US and German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die

Mar 26 Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 &8-11) vs South Africa at Newlands

Mar 31 Alexander Gustave Eiffel raised the French flag at the top of his tower in Paris.

Mar 02 Kansas passes first US antitrust

Mar 26 Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26 out of 47! South Africa vs England

Mar 09 Kansas passes first general antitrust law in US

Mar 12 Battle at Metema (Gallabad); Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated

Mar 23 President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization

Mar 23 Edmonton Alberta's temperature reaches 22.2 C; warmest March day on record.

Mar 26 South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 vs England

Mar 04 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd President

Mar 25 The first Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town vs England

Mar 12 Start of South Africa's first Test, vs England, Port Elizabeth

Mar 12 Ethiopia's Johannes IV is killed in the Battle of Metemma fighting the Mahdists

Mar 09 Battle at Gallabat (Metema); Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV

Mar 31 The Eiffel Tower in Paris, 985ft tall, was officially opened

Aug 06 London's Savoy Hotel opens, the first British hotel to have private baths

Aug 23 The first ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)

Aug 15 The Great London dock strike from August 15 to September 16 helps extend British trade unionism from the skilled classes to the less skilled

Sep 27 New York's first real skyscraper opens at 50 Broadway with 13 stories

Sep 07 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of The Engineer's Thumb" (BG)

Feb 07 Astronomical Society of Pacific holds first meeting in San Francisco

Feb 14 First trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for the east

Feb 22 U.S. President Grover Cleveland signs a bill to admit North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington (state) to the Union.

Feb 22 Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to the union

Feb 08 Flood ravages Dutch coast

Feb 11 The first Japanese written Constitution, handed by the Meiji emperor to his prime minister, Count Kuroda

Apr 18 In Germany First distant earthquake recorded. Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz made the first known recordings of a distant earthquake.

Apr 22 Oklahoma land rush officially started

Apr 20 The birth of Adolf Hitler, Dictator of Germany

Apr 16 The birth of Charlie Chaplin, American silent film actor and director

Apr 05 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of The Copper Beeches" (BG)

Apr 18 In Japan a 7+ quake occured near east coast of Honshu, Japan. Teleseism first identified on a seismogram. The instruments were horizontal pendulums, designed by Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz to measure slight changes in the direction of the vertical. Two of these pendulums, located in Potsdam and Wilhelmshaven, recorded a large earthquake on April 17, 1889. The earthquake had been felt in Japan about an hour before it was recorded in Germany

Apr 30 First US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration

Apr 22 Oklahoma Territory lands formerly reserved for Native Americans are opened to white homesteaders by President Harrison at high noon

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