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Wikipedia.
Events:
January 4 - The first successful appendectomy is performed (Dr. William Grant; patient
was Mary Gartside).
January 20 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
January 26 - Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
February 5 - King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal
possession.
February 9 - The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
February 18 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
February 21 - The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
February 26 - Final Act of the Berlin Conference regulates European colonisation and trade
in Africa.
March 3 - A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone
and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.
March 4 - Grover Cleveland replaces Chester A. Arthur as President of the United States.
March-May - North-West Rebellion took place and was put down in Canada.
March 31 - The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
May 9-12 - Canadian government forces inflict decisive defeat on Métis rebels at the
Battle of Batoche.
July 6 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph
Meister; a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
September 2 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners attack their Chinese
coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
September 18 - Union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria proclaimed at Plovdiv.
November 7 - Canadian Pacific Railway finished: In Craigellachie, British Columbia,
construction ends on a railway extending across Canada. Prime Minister John A.
Macdonald considered the project to be vital to Canada.
November 14-28 - Serbo-Bulgarian War: Serbia declares war against Bulgaria but is
defeated in Battle of Slivnitsa on November 17-19.
November 16 - Canadian rebel leader of the Métis, Louis Riel is executed for high treason.
December 1 - The US Patent Office acknowledges this date as the day Dr Pepper was
served for the very first time; the exact date of Dr Pepper's invention is unknown.
Creation of the first genuine bicycle, the Rover, by John K Starley.
John Boyd Dunlop invents the pneumatic tyre.
W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan's The Mikado.
Births:
January 4 -
Johannes Jacob de Engelsman.
January 8 -
John Curtin, fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia, (d. 1945).
January 11 -
Alice Paul, women's rights activist.
January 21 -
Umberto Nobile, politician and airship designer (d. 1978).
January 27 -
Eduard Künnecke, composer (d. 1953).
January 27 -
Jerome Kern, composer (d. 1945).
January 29 -
Leadbelly.
February 1 -
Jacomina Johanna van der Weele.
February 7 -
Sinclair Lewis, novelist.
February 9 -
Alban Berg, Austrian composer.
February 9 -
Anita Ree, painter (d. 1933).
February 13 -
Bess Truman, First Lady, wife of President Harry S. Truman.
February 15- Her Serene Highness Princess
Alice of Battenberg.
February 21 -
Sacha Guitry, dramatist, writer, director, actor (d. 1957).
February 24 -
Chester Nimitz, United States admiral (d. 1966).
March 2 -
Neeltje van den Houten.
March 5 -
Cornelis Marinus Bakker.
March 6 -
Ring Lardner, writer (d. 1933).
March 11 - Sir
Malcolm Campbell, land and water racer(d. 1948).
March 13 -
Elizabeth Robijn.
March 31 -
Pascin, the "Prince of Montparnasse".
April 1 -
Wallace Beery, actor (d. 1949).
April 3 -
Allan Dwan, film director (d. 1981).
April 4 -
Arthur Murray, dancer.
April 10 -
Jan van den Houten.
April 11 -
Catharina de Jong.
April 30 -
Teunis Willem van den Houten.
May 2 -
Hedda Hopper, columnist (d. 1966).
May 7 -
George 'Gabby' Hayes, actor (d. 1969).
May 14 -
Otto Klemperer, conductor.
May 22 -
Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral of World War II.
May 30 -
Willem ten Haaf.
June 14 -
E. L. Grant Watson.
June 22 -
Leendert Bruggeman.
June 22 -
Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (+ 1962).
July 13 -
Marinus de Fouw.
September 11 -
D.H. Lawrence, author.
September 22 -
Ben Chifley, Australian Prime Minister.
October 7 -
Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 1962).
October 8 -
Anna van den Berge.
October 10 -
Cornelia Rijnberg.
October 18 -
Pieter Redert.
November 23 -
Jozua van den Houten.
November 23 -
Elizabeth van den Houten.
November 25 -
Maria van den Houten.
December 4 -
Izaak Leendert van As.
December 19 -
Joe King Oliver, jazz musician (d. 1938).
December 29 -
Arentje van den Houten.
Deaths:
March 10 -
Jan Dourleyn.
March 16 -
Maria Bakker.
April 2 -
Justo Rufino Barrios, Central American leader.
April 17 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
May 13 -
Johannes Jacob de Engelsman.
May 22 -
Victor Hugo, author.
August 10 -
Klaas Beije.
August 10 -
James Wilson Marshall, contractor and builder of Sutter's Mill.
October 19 -
Klara Hendrika van den Houten.
November 16 -
Louis Riel, Canadian Métis leader (hanged for treason).
November 25 - King
Alfonso XII of Spain.
December 8 -
William Henry Vanderbilt, entrepreneur.
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