Dec 18 Frederick Lugard occupies Uganda for British East Africa Company.

Dec 29 300 Sioux Indians are killed by US troops at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

Dec 29 The last ever battle between American natives and US troops takes place

Dec 15 While resisting wrongful arrest Sitting Bull, the legendary Sioux chief,was killed by police, in South Dakota

Dec 31 Ellis Island (New York NY) opens as a US immigration depot

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)]

Jul 02 The Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed by Congress, it curtails the powers of U.S. business monopolies

Jul 11 Japan holds her first political elections

Jul 07 Electric chair used for the first time in the United States

Jul 13 John C Fremont declared Republic of California, dies at 76

Jul 03 Idaho admitted as 43rd US state

Jul 01 Anglo-German disputes in East Africa are resolved

Jul 15 A Charlois discovers asteroid #294 Felicia

Jul 20 Snow & hail in Calais, ME

Jul 10 Wyoming becomes 44th state

Jul 02 Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies

Jul 02 The Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed by Congress, it curtails the powers of U.S. business monopolies:

Jun 16 The birth of Stan Laurel, English born comedy actor

Jun 13 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out &named

Jun 27 Canadian boxer George 'Little Chocolate' Dixon 1870-1909 wins world bantamweight crown.

Jun 12 The birth of Egon Schiele, German painter

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

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