May 02 Abyssinian emperor Menelik II/Italy signs Treaty of Wichale

May 09 15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34½

May 09 15th Kentucky Derby Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2 34½

May 06 The Eiffel Tower designed by French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, 57, is completed at Paris for the Universal Exhibition that opens

May 01 Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)

May 31 The Johnstown Flood kills 2,000 to 5,000 Pennsylvanians in a city of 30,000

May 30 The brassiere is invented (good or bad?)

May 31 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania

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

Apr 30 George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ opens

Apr 03 Savings Bank of the Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond VA

Nov 08 Montana becomes the 41st state of the Union.

Nov 27 Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City. Mr. Brady had to pledge to New York's finest that he would not frighten the horses in the park.

Nov 05 Idaho's constitution is adopted.

Nov 11 Washington admitted as 42nd state

Nov 15 Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed

Nov 23 The first ‘Nickel-in-the-Slot’ (jukebox) was placed in service on this day in the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco, California. Juke, at the time, was a slang word for a a disorderly house, or house of ill repute.

Nov 02 North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes the 40th state

Nov 14 NY World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip

Nov 18 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii

Nov 17 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and San Francisco

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

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