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
