May 19 The birth of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader, after whom Saigon was renamed

May 24 Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany

May 02 Territory of Oklahoma created

May 13 Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda & Equatoria

May 24 Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma

May 12 Louisiana legalized prize fighting

May 24 Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London

May 17 Comic Cuts, first weekly comic paper, published in London

May 06 Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]

Jan 02 Alice Sanger becomes first female White House staffer

Jan 21 The first issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper

Jan 07 Nellie Bly boards the S.S. Oceanic at Yokohama January 7 and sails for San Francisco after having crossed the Atlantic, Europe, and Asia in her well-publicized attempt to girdle the earth in less than 80 days

Jan 25 New York World reporter Nellie Bly returns home after completing an around the world journey in just 72 days, six hours and eleven minutes.

Jan 03 The first US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin

Jan 07 Nellie Bly boards the S.S. Oceanic at Yokohama January 7 and sails for San Francisco after having crossed the Atlantic, Europe, and Asia in her well-publicized attempt to girdle the earth in less than 80 days

Jan 25 United Mine Workers of America forms

Jan 02 Alice Sanger becomes first female White House staffer

Jan 03 The first US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin

Jan 07 W B Purvis patents fountain pen

Jan 25 Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days)

Jan 02 Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny

Jan 07 W B Purvis patents fountain pen

Jan 02 Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny

Jan 25 National Afro-American League forms in Chicago

Feb 10 Around 11 million acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement

Feb 27 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw

Feb 14 First New South Wales vs South Australia 1st-class cricket game

Feb 10 The birth of Boris Pasternak, Russian author.

Apr 25 J Palisa discovers asteroids #291 Alice & #292 Ludovica

Apr 14 Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC)

Nov 29 The first Japanese Diet opens

Nov 27 Firstsignal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation

Nov 29 First Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point

Nov 22 Charles DeGaulle born

Nov 20 Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in the missions

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