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

Nov 12 Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pittsburgh Athletic Club, 4-0 in football

Nov 12 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes first pro football player

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)

Jun 18 Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii

Jun 26 The birth of Pearl Buck, American novelist

Jun 04 The Sierra Club is incorporated in San Francisco.

Dec 06 The birth of Sir Osbert Sitwell, British Writer

Dec 20 Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse NY

Dec 27 Foundation Stone of the Cathedral of St John laid (New York NY)

Dec 15 The birth of John Paul Getty, American multi-millionaire and oil tycoon

Dec 04 The birth of General Franco, Spanish military dictator

Dec 20 Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne

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.

Oct 18 First commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)

Oct 05 Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeyville, Kansas bank holdup

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