See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 25 -
Thomas Edison and
Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone
Company.
February 5 - Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated.
February 19 - Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
March 4 -
Rutherford Birchard Hayes is succeeded as President of the United States
by
James Abram Garfield.
March 13 -
Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him.
May 12 - In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
May 21 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
July 2 -
James Abram Garfield, President of the United States is shot by lawyer
Charles
Julius Guiteau. He survives the assassination attempt but he suffers from infection of his
wound.
July 4 - In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
July 20 - Indian Wars: Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in
surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana.
September 19 - James Abram Garfield, President of the United States dies due to an
infected wound and is succeeded by Vice President Chester Alan Arthur.
October 26 - Gunfight at the O. K. Corral in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA.
Founding of the Pali Text Society.
The United States National Lawn Tennis Association (USNLTA) is founded, and the
first U.S. Tennis Championships are played.
Founding of the Three Emperor's League.
Births:
January 6 -
Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961).
January 9 -
Klara Hendrika van den Houten.
January 16 -
Albertine Maria Proes.
January 16 - Sir
Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, radio pioneer.
January 18 -
Elisabeth Cornelia van Dienst.
February 12 -
Anna Pavlova, ballerina (d. 1931).
March 12 -
Kemal Ataturk, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic (d. 1938).
March 18 -
Cornelia van den Houten.
March 25 -
Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer.
March 25 -
Mary Gladys Webb, writer (d. 1927).
April 16 -
Dennis Sweetman.
April 20 -
Jacob Witte.
June 15 -
Lucia Carolina Jacoba de Engelsman.
June 17 -
Tommy Burns, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion.
June 29 -
Johannes Cornelis Dubbelman.
August 6 - Sir
Alexander Fleming, British discoverer of penicillin..
August 27 -
Bregtje (Bertha) van Houten.
August 27 -
Elizabeth Laurina Quant.
September 12 -
Sara van den Houten.
September 13 -
Benjamin Cohen.
September 26 -
Wilhelmina (Willemina) van den Houten.
September 29 -
Pieternella van den Berge.
October 11 -
Leentje Helders.
October 15 -
P. G. Wodehouse, British-American writer.
October 25 -
Pablo Picasso, painter.
November 4 -
Teunis Willem van den Houten.
November 4 -
Hubertina Maria van den Houten.
November 14 -
Nicholas Schenck motion-picture empresario (d. 1969).
November 24 -
Al Christie, early Hollywood director/producer (d. 1951).
November 25 -
Pope John XXIII (d. 1963).
November 30 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
December 13 -
Lieven Jonker.
Deaths:
January 21 -
Wilhelm Matthias Näff, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1802).
February 3 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
March 13 -
Czar Alexander II of Russia.
May 28 -
Jan van den Houten.
September 20 -
Neeltje van den Houten.
September 22 -
Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831).
October 26 -
Aplonie Troast.
October 29 -
Maria van den Houten.
October 30 -
Willemina Drooger.
October 31 -
George Washington DeLong, American naval officer and ill-fated explorer.
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