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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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