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

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)

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

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