Feb 08 Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg

Feb 26 Michael Owens of Toledo OH patents a glass-blowing machine

Apr 24 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat

Apr 05 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices

Apr 11 Anaheim completes it's new electric light system

Apr 15 Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)

Apr 05 Writer Oscar Wylde is arrested for "Gross Behavior"

Apr 17 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends first Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)

Apr 05 Writer Oscar Wylde is arrested

Apr 18 New York State passed an act that established free public baths! They were to be open 14 hours a day and provide hot and cold water.

Apr 13 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist" (BG)

Apr 05 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the 3 Students" (BG)

Nov 05 Inventor George B. Selden receives a patent on a "road engine," the first gas-powered automobile.

Nov 08 Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays

Nov 21 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)

Nov 28 America's first auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averages 7 MPH

Nov 11 Bechuanaland becomes part of the Cape Colony

Nov 29 The birth of Busby Berkeley , American director and choreographer

Nov 16 Samuel F. Smith, composer of America, dies.

Nov 27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize

Nov 13 The first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii

Nov 26 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed

Nov 05 The first US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)

Dec 02 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes

Dec 17 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC

Dec 17 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)

Dec 22 Wilhelm Rontgen, the German physicist, makes the first ever X-ray of his wife's hand

May 27 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector

May 20 The first commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC)

May 30 W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days

May 25 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite

May 06 The birth of Rudolph Valentino, Silent film star

May 24 Playright Oscar Wilde is convicted on a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison

May 08 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki

May 24 Henry Irving becomes first theatrical knight

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