Mar 26 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day

Mar 06 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2

Mar 06 J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 minutes) England vs Australia

Mar 25 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

Mar 30 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge

Mar 13 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die

Mar 19 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service

Mar 22 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their first movie to an invited audience

Mar 18 200 blacks leave Savannah GA for Liberia

Mar 11 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed

Sep 18 D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes first chiropractor

Sep 28 Louis Pasteur chemist, scientist: developed pasteurization process, rabies vaccination; died

Sep 24 The first round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)

Sep 28 Louis Pasteur chemist, scientist developed pasteurization process, rabies vaccination; died

Sep 30 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar

Sep 03 Latrobe, PA is the site of the world's first professional football game, played today between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.)

Sep 21 The first auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company

Sep 18 Booker T Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address

Sep 12 Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (England) in 10th America's Cup

Feb 11 -17ºF (-27.2ºC) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)

Feb 23 William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia

Feb 24 Cuban war of independence begins

Feb 04 First rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago

Feb 13 Moving picture projector patented

Feb 01 The birth of John Ford, American director.

Feb 20 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO

Feb 11 Georgetown became part of Washington DC

Feb 23 Jaap Eden skates world record 10 km (17:56)

Feb 23 Jaap Eden skates world record 10 km (17 56)

Feb 14 Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" opens in London

Feb 20 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C.

Feb 28 The birth of Marcel Pagnol, French writer

Feb 21 North Carolina Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass

Feb 09 Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts

Feb 15 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans

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