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

Jun 13 2 feet of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming

Jun 19 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Man with the Twisted Lip"

Jun 03 The first CP train arrives in Saint John, NB from Montréal marking the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway as a coast to coast railway.

Jun 06 Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks

Jun 12 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond Wisc)

Jun 08 Cable Cars begin service in LA

Jun 08 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)

Jun 01 Europe's Orient Express completes arrangements for travel between Paris and Constantinople without change of train

Dec 24 Daniel Stover and William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake

Dec 19 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii

Dec 24 Bicycle with a back-pedal brake patented

Dec 14 American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Philadelphia

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

Oct 02 First Pan American conference (Washington DC)

Oct 19 Portugal's Luiz I dies at age 51 after a 28-year reign in which slavery has been abolished in every Portuguese colony

Oct 06 Thomas Edison shows his First motion picture

Oct 24 Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League

Oct 01 Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum

Oct 29 Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC

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

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