See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 9 - Humbert I becomes King of Italy.
January 28 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.
February 2 - Greece declares war on Turkey.
February 11 - 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms.
February 11 - 1st weekly Weather report published in UK.
February 18 - The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
February 19 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.
February 28 - Mississippi State University is created by the Mississippi Legislature (under
the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi).
March 3 - Bulgaria regained its independence from Ottoman Empire.
March 24 - The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.
May 15 - Tokyo Stock Exchange established.
July 13 - The Treaty of Berlin makes Serbia completely independent.
July 26 - In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart"
makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach.
The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
September 3 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with
the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
October 15 - The Edison Electric Company begins operation.
October 17 - John A. Macdonald returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
West Bromwich Albion F.C. play their first match.
Births:
January 6 -
Carl Sandburg, poet, historian (d. 1967).
January 12 -
Ferenc Molnár, author (d. 1952).
January 16 -
Neeltje Grinwis.
January 20 -
Ruth St. Denis, dancer (d. 1968).
January 21 -
Johanna Jacoba van den Houten.
January 25 -
Ernst Alexanderson, television pioneer.
February 2 -
Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer.
February 5 -
André Citroën, automobile pioneer.
February 8 -
Martin Buber, philosopher.
February 14 -
Hirota Koki, Japanese prime minister (d. 1948).
February 19 -
Cornelia Wilhelmina Bodbijl.
March 4 -
Neeltje van den Houten.
March 16 -
Clemens August Graf von Galen, archbishop of Münster and
cardinal (d. 1946).
March 22 -
Michel Théato, Luxembourg athlete.
March 27 - Sir
George Gilbert Scott, architect.
March 31 -
Jack Johnson, the first African American to hold a boxing title.
April 3 -
Kommertje van den Houten.
April 6 -
Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934).
April 24 -
Jean Crotti, Swiss artist.
May 10 -
Gustav Stresemann, politician and recipient of the Nobel Prize in
peace 1926 (d. 1929).
May 26 -
Isadora Duncan, dancer (d. 1927).
July 4 -
George M. Cohan, singer, dancer, composer, actor, writer (d. 1942).
July 14 -
Zoetje Kool.
July 17 -
Pieter van den Houten.
July 24 -
Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author.
August 9 -
Lucia Carolina Robijn.
August 22 -
Maarten van den Houten.
September 22 -
Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967).
October 1 -
Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist.
October 4 -
Leendert Stoutjesdijk.
December 4 -
Jacobus de Zwarte.
December 10 -
Hendrik van Ockenburg.
December 16 -
Jasper den Engelsman.
December 25 -
Louis Chevrolet, automobile builder (d. 1941).
Stillborn:
March 29 -
Stillborn van den Houten (girl).
Deaths:
January 31 -
Cornelia van den Houten.
February 7 - Pope
Pius IX.
March 4 -
Teuntje van den Houten.
March 11 -
Pieter van den Brand.
April 12 -
William Marcy Tweed, American politician, former "Boss" of Tammany Hall.
June 8 -
Maria van den Houten.
July 4 -
Teunis Willem van den Houten.
August 16 -
Pieter van den Houten.
December 14 -
Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, second daughter
of Queen Victoria and consort of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine.
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