May 19 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded

May 01 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Fransisco Bay

May 04 Canadian Thomas I. 'Carbide' Willson develops first manufacturing process to create acetylene gas; already developed on a laboratory scale; sells process to Union Carbide

May 25 The birth of Josip Tito, Former Yugoslavian president

May 19 Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer

May 14 Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem

May 20 Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy & Austria-Hungary forms

May 22 Dr Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube

May 28 Sierra Club forms by John Muir in San Fransisco, for conservation of nature

May 20 George Sampson patents clothes dryer

Jan 01 Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants

Jan 11 Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl

Jan 03 The birth of J.R Tolkien, English author

Jan 11 William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia

Jan 15 Dr. James Naismith publishes, for the first time, the thirteen rules of basketball the game he invented the previous winter, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Jan 01 Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants

Jan 20 The first officially recognized basketball game was played at the YMCA gym in Springfield, Mass.

Jan 18 The birth of Oliver Hardy, American comedian

Jan 07 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs OK-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns

Jan 30 Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test

Jan 28 The birth of Ernst Lubitsch, German actor

Jan 01 The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opens.

Jan 30 Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out

Jan 14 The birth of Hal Roach, American director

Jan 01 The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opens.

Jan 08 A hundred workers die in a mine explosion in McAlister, Oklahoma.

Jan 11 Hawaiian Historical Society founded

Jan 07 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs OK-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns

Jan 24 Battle at Mengo, Uganda French missionaries attack British missionaries

Feb 29 Britain & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea

Feb 23 First college student government established, Bryn Mawr PA

Feb 01 Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite

Feb 22 "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James Theater (London)

Feb 12 President Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday.

Feb 02 Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore)

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