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January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.

January 29 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

February 14 - First trainload of oranges left Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.

March ? - Linfield F.C. is formed in Belfast

March 17 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.

April 25 - Easter occurs on latest possible date (next in 1943)

May 1 - the start of the general strike in the United States which escalated into Haymarket Riot and eventually won the eight-hour workday in the U.S.

May 4 - Emil Berliner started working on inventing the gramophone.

May 8 - Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be named "Coca-Cola."

May 10 - The Football Association approves N. L. Jackson's proposal that each player be awarded a cap for each international match in which he plays.

May 29 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (ad in the Atlanta Journal).

June 2 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the first and only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.

June 10 - Eruption of Mount Tarawera volcano in New Zealand, resulting in the deaths of over 150 people and the destruction of the famous Pink and White Terraces.

June 30 - Royal Holloway, University of London opened by Queen Victoria in Surrey United Kingdom.

July 25 ? Steve Brodie fakes a jump from the Brooklyn Bridge

June 13 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

August 4 ? William Ewart Gladstone fails to secure enough support for the Irish Home Rule in the British parliament

August 20 - A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas

August 31 - Huge Earthquake hits South Carolina USA. Earthquake rods installed afterwards... Much Damage.

September 4 - Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.

September 15 - First day of school in the newly founded Alhambra School District.

October 7 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.

October 28 - In New York Harbor, US President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

November 30 - Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

Britain annexes Burma

Mt. Etna erupts

Maidenhead Citadel Band of The Salvation Army was founded by William Thomas

Piccadilly Circus

William Grant & Sons founded

Wilhelm Steinitz becomes first official World Chess Champion

Founded Skorenovac, village, inhabited with Székely Hungarians

Inexpensive method for refining aluminum discovered

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January 2 - Florence Lawrence, Canadian-born actress (d. 1938)

January 14 - Hugh Lofting, English-born author (d. 1947)

January 25 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)

February 8 - Charles Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970)

February 27 - Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)

March 1 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist and poet (d. 1980)

March 2 - Willis O'Brien, stop motion animator (d. 1962)

March 3 - Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)

March 8 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)

March 11 - Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Polish politician, Marshal of Poland (d. 1941)

March 15 - Sergei Kirov, Soviet revolutionary (d. 1934)

March 18

Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970)

Lothar Arnauld de la Perière, German U-boat ace (d. 1941)

March 24 - Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)

March 25 - Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople (d. 1972)

March 27 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)

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April 14 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1950)

April 15 - Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)

April 26 - Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)

May 2 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (d. 1956)

May 3 - Marcel Dupré, French composer (d. 1971)

May 10 - Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant Theologian (d. 1968)

May 17 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)

May 20 - John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (d. 1971)

May 26 - Al Jolson, American trumpeter (d. 1950)

June 7 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)

June 18 - George Mallory, English climber (d. 1924)

June 24 - George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949)

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July - September

July 12 - Jean Hersholt, Danish-born actor (d. 1956)
July 23 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
July 24 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (d. 1965)
July 25 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
August 27
Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
September 4 - Albert Orsborn, the 6th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967)
September 13 - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
September 16 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (d. 1966)
September 20 - Charles Williams, British author (d. 1945)
September 26 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)

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October - December

October 6 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
October 16 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
November 1 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d. 1951)
November 9 - Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
November 15 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
November 20 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1982)
December 3 - Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
December 5 - Rose Wilder Lane, American author and reporter (d. 1968)
December 8 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
December 12 - Owen Moore, Irish actor (d. 1939)
December 18 - Ty Cobb, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1961)
December 25 - Kid Ory, American jazz musician (d. 1973)
Jacques Majorelle, French painter (d. 1962)

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Deaths

January 17 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (b. 1834)
January 26 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
May 15 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
May 17 - John Deere, Inventor (b. 1804)
June 13 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
July 1 - Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (b. 1806)
July 31 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1811)
August 9 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
August 16 - Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Indian spiritual figure (b. 1836)
September 14 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, American land speculator (b. 1802)
November 18 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
November 22 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)

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Unknown dates

Andrew Nicholl, Northern Irish painter (b. 1804)