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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 MŽtis
     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 18 - Union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria proclaimed at
     Plovdiv.
   * November 7 -The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway was
     officialy completed, completing a difficult project Prime Minister John
     A. Macdonald considered critical for the survival of Canada.
   * November 14-28 - Serbo-Bulgarian War: Serbia declares war against
     Bulgaria but is defeated in Battle of Slivnitsa on November 17-19.
   * 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 11 - Alice Paul, women's rights activist
   * January 21 - Umberto Nobile, politician and airship designer (+ 1978)
   * January 27 - Eduard KŸnneke, composer (+ 1953)
   * January 27 - Jerome Kern, composer (+ 1945)
   * January 29 - Leadbelly
   * February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist
   * February 9 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer
   * February 9 - Anita Ree, painter (+ 1933))
   * February 13 - Bess Truman, First Lady, wife of President Harry S Truman
   * February 21 - Sacha Guitry, dramatist, writer, director, actor (+ 1957)
   * February 24 - Chester Nimitz, United States admiral (+ 1966)
   * March 6 - Ring Lardner, writer (+ 1933)
   * March 31 - Pascin, the "Prince of Montparnasse"
   * April 1 - Wallace Beery, actor (+ 1949)
   * April 3 - Allan Dwan, pioneer film director ( + 1981)
   * April 4 - Arthur Murray, dancer
   * May 7 - George 'Gabby' Hayes, actor (+ 1969)
   * May 14 - Otto Klemperer, conductor
   * June 22 - Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (+
     1962).
   * September 11 - D.H. Lawrence, author
   * September 22 - Ben Chifley, Australian Prime Minister
   * October 7 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist

Deaths

   * April 2 - Justo Rufino Barrios, Central American leader
   * May 22 - Victor Hugo, author
   * November 16 - Louis Riel, Canadian MŽtis leader (hanged for treason)
   * November 25 - King Alfonso XII of Spain

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