Apr 05 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville PA

Apr 14 Firt public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)

Apr 05 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Empty House" (BG)

Apr 17 Nikita Khrushchev (USSR premier 1958­64) born

Nov 01 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris

Nov 25 Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis

Nov 14 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" (BG)

Nov 16 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan

Sep 27 New York's Aqueduct horse racing track opens.

Sep 15 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang

Sep 15 The birth of Jean Renoir, French film director

Jun 30 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid

Jun 21 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company

Jun 24 Decision to begin modern Olympics every 4 years

Jun 28 Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday

Dec 18 South Australian women given the vote.

Dec 08 The birth of James Thurber, American writer

Dec 17 Arthur Fiedler the conductor of The Boston Pops Orchestra was born

Dec 05 Phillip K. Wrigley (Wrigley Gum) born

Dec 22 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)

Dec 22 French officer, Alfred Dreyfus, found guilty of selling secrets to Germany

Aug 18 Congress creates Bureau of Immigration

Oct 01 Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska

Oct 17 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man

Oct 29 The first election of the Hawaiian Republic

Oct 14 The birth of E.E Cummings, American poet

Jul 04 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of first US autos at 6 MPH

Jul 26 The birth of Aldous Huxley, English novelist

Jul 16 Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England

Jul 02 Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers

Jul 04 Republic of Hawaii established

Jul 16 Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners

Jul 06 Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike

Jul 20 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike

Jul 25 The birth of Walter Brennan, American actor

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