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.
