Mar 15 Escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York NY)

Mar 11 The first public basketball game (Springfield MA)

Mar 03 Cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova PA

Mar 15 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)

Mar 15 The first escalator, the Reno Inclined Elevator, is patented by Jesse W Reno of New York.

Mar 18 Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)

Mar 19 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England vs SA (Cape Town)

Aug 11 The birth of Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet

Aug 17 The birth of Mae West, American actress

Aug 13 Baltimore Afro-American forms

Aug 04 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden and axe murderess arrested in Fall River, Mass

Aug 27 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City is heavily damaged by fire.

Sep 06 The birth of Edward Appleton, English physicist

Sep 09 Almalthea, a moon orbiting the planet Jupiter, discovered

Sep 26 First public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)

Sep 07 James J Corbett kayos John L Sullivan in round 21 at New Orleans

Sep 04 The birth of Darius Milhaud, French composer and pianist

Sep 09 Almalthea, 5th moon of Jupiter, discovered by EE Barnard at Lick

Sep 08 The first appearance of "The Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)

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)

Feb 13 The birth of Grant Wood, American painter.

Feb 03 Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin

Feb 22 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms

Apr 19 Charles Duryea takes first American-made auto out for a spin

Apr 21 The first buffalo born in Golden Gate Park

Apr 29 Charlie Reilly is baseball's first pinch hitter

Apr 08 A Charlois discovers asteroid #331 Etheridgea

Apr 21 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo

Apr 01 A Charlois discovers asteroid #331 Etheridgea

Nov 08 Grover Cleveland (D) elected President

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