May 12 Battle at Thessalië: Turkish army beats Greece

May 21 Yerkes Observatory 40" (1 meter) refractor used for first time

May 27 The birth of John Cockcroft, English nuclear physicist

May 12 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente Netherlands

May 14 Great-Britain signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia

May 18 Irish Music Festival first held (Dublin)

May 04 Fire in Paris France bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200

May 12 Battle at Thessalië Turkish army beats Greece

Jan 01 Brooklyn merges with New York to form present City of New York

Jan 29 Ishbel, Lady Aberdeen, wife of the Governor General, helps found the Victorian Order of Nurses at the request of the National Council of Women

Jan 11 M H Cannon becomes first woman state senator in US (Utah)

Jan 27 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)

Jan 23 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" (BG)

Jan 27 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)

Jan 14 6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) first climbed

Jan 01 Brooklyn merges with New York to form present City of New York

Jan 26 Battle at Bida Gold Coast British troops beat Nupe's army

Feb 02 The Pennsylvania state capitol in Harrisburg is destroyed by fire.

Feb 10 New York Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"

Feb 11 White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC

Feb 05 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel

Feb 10 New York Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print."

Apr 17 Thornton Wilder (American playwright) born

Apr 22 NYC Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (stiil active)

Apr 27 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated

Apr 24 The first journalist to be named White House news reporter was William Price, who began working the prestigious beat for the "Washington Star" this day.

Apr 19 First American marathon ran, John J McDermott wins in 2:55:10 (Boston)

Apr 19 First American marathon ran, John J McDermott wins in 2 55 10 (Boston)

Nov 23 Eli Olds of Lansing, Michigan, is issued a U.S. patent for his "motor carriage," a gasoline-powered vehicle that he constructed the year before.

Nov 25 Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy

Sep 24 A new double track steel arch bridge is completed by the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company and the Niagara Falls International Bridge Company. The upper floor of the new structure is leased to the Grand Trunk Railway.

Sep 02 The first issue of McCall's magazine goes on sale at newsstands.

Sep 21 "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus," begins the famous editorial response to 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon's letter in the New York Sun.

Sep 21 NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial

Sep 23 First frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)

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