January 2 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust January 13 Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal" January 15 1st U.S. ski club forms, Berlin, New Hampshire January 17 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office January 25 Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms January 26 France government of Gambetta falls February 2 Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Conn February 3 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo February 7 Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss February 10 Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka," premieres in St. Petersburg February 12 Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam February 15 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin February 15 SS Dunedin leaves New Zealand with 1st frozen meat to England February 17 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground February 21 New York City's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours February 22 With 120 miles James Saunders wins New York City's 24 hour race and $100 prize February 28 1st U.S. college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University March 3 New York Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings March 6 Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king March 9 False teeth patented March 11 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton New Jersey March 16 U.S. Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross March 22 Edmunds Act adopted by U.S. to suppress polygamy in the territories March 24 Dr. Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis March 24 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB March 25 1st demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York City) March 29 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men April 3 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks April 10 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco and Hawaii) May 6 Chinese Exclusion Act: U.S. Congress ceases Chinese immigration May 6 Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria May 8 David Belasco's "La Belle Russe," premieres in New York City May 9 Telegraph Hill RR Co organized May 13 Toba-indians killed 20 members of French expedition May 15 May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania May 16 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40 May 20 Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance May 20 Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" (Gengangere) premieres in Chicago May 20 St. Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland and Italy opens May 23 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa May 27 10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44 June 2 Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris June 5 Storm and floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die June 6 Cyclone in Arabian Sea, Bombay, India, drowns 100,000 June 6 Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, New York City June 8 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43 June 10 Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans June 16 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa June 17 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa June 24 NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty July 4 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in San Francisco July 6 14 Russian Jews of Bilu, arrive in Jaffa Palestine July 11 British fleet bombs Alexandria July 12 1st ocean pier in U.S. completed, Washington, D.C. July 13 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia July 18 Louisville Tony Mullane is 1st to pitch righty then lefty July 28 Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut) August 3 Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration August 7 Hatfields of south WV and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die August 14 Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo August 16 British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria August 20 Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow August 29 Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket" August 29 Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match vs. England (7-46 and 7-44) September 3 French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die September 4 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station) September 5 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in New York City September 10 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) September 12 Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza September 13 Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt September 14 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo September 15 British general Wolseley occupies Cairo September 18 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board) September 25 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence and Worcester) October 6 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0 October 7 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0 October 19 Pierre de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley October 28 Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association November 5 Bedrich Smetana's "Ma Vlast," premieres November 15 British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger November 16 British HMS Flirt fire at and destroy Abari village in Niger December 2 Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium December 6 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit December 10 John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen," premieres December 11 Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" December 11 Victorien Sardous "Fedora," with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris December 14 Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo December 22 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
