Mar 07 Battle in Bunyoro Captain F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed

Mar 23 The first jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall

Mar 17 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574

Mar 18 Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone

Mar 03 Congress creates Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department)

Mar 07 Battle in Bunyoro: Captain F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed

Mar 21 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia; it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years

Mar 14 The submarine Monarch lays telephone cable along the English Channel bed to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel.

Aug 24 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera

Aug 19 William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum

Aug 04 George Washington Williams dies at 41 in Blackpool England

Sep 03 Cottonpickers organize union &stage strike in Texas

Sep 03 John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti

Sep 14 "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7hours 5 min.

Feb 07 Great Blizzard of 1891 begins

Feb 09 First shipment of asparagus arrives in San Francisco from Sacramento

Feb 06 The first great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)

Feb 26 First buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park

Feb 18 Captain Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan

Feb 24 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Diéna West Sudan

Feb 26 Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler," premieres in Oslo

Apr 07 PT Barnum circus showman (Barnum &Bailey), dies at 80

Apr 02 The birth of Max Ernst, German painter

Apr 29 In Vancouver BC the Canadian Pacific Ltd. steamship Empress of India arrives in Vancouver from Yokohama to open regular service to the Far East; breaks record Pacific crossing by two days.

Apr 24 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"

Apr 11 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumour spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews

Apr 07 Nebraska introduces the 8 hour work day

Apr 25 Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF

Apr 06 J Palisa discovers asteroid #309 Fraternitas

Apr 23 Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia

Nov 15 The birth of Erwin Rommel, Leading German General of WWII

Dec 20 Strongman Louis Cyr withstands the pull of 4 horses

Dec 26 The birth of Henry Miller, US novellist

Dec 02 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes

Dec 15 James Naismith a Canadian invents basketball

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