Mar 21 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law

Mar 03 Norman Bethune medical doctor, born on this day at Gravenhurst Ontario; died of blood poisoning in 1939 in China

Mar 01 The First US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published

Mar 18 First US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)

Mar 18 Kaiser Wilhelm forces Bismarck to resign as prime minister

Mar 20 German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck

Aug 06 Cy Young pitches &wins 1st game

Aug 06 First use of electric chair in US, John Hart, in NY for murder

Aug 08 Daughters of the American Revolution organizes

Aug 08 The Knights of Labor strike the New York Central Railroad August 8.

Aug 20 The birth of H.P Lovecraft, American writer

Sep 25 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (Calif)

Sep 15 The birth of Agatha Christie, English author

Sep 16 Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team the Packers

Sep 19 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540

Sep 25 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG)

Sep 26 US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3. piece

Sep 12 Salisbury is founded by the British South Africa Company in the Mashonaland territory that will become Rhodesia

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

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

Nov 04 Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate

Nov 23 Willem III of the Netherlands dies at age 73

Dec 29 Federal troops massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD; Indian "war" in the west

Dec 29 The "Battle of Wounded Knee" ends the last major Indian resistance to white settlement in America

Dec 15 Sitting Bull, a leader of the Sioux Indian nation, is killed in South Dakota by Indian police for resisting arrest.

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