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
