January 31 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
February 14 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone.
February 2 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League
Baseball is formed.
February 22 - Johns Hopkins University founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
March 7 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the
telephone (patent # 174,464).
March 10 - Alexander Graham Bell
makes the first successful telephone call by saying
"Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
May 30 - Abd-ul-Aziz
, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and succeeded by
his nephew Murat V.
June 25 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Little Bighorn. Lieutenant colonel George Armstrong
Custer of the US 7th Cavalry Regiment leads a unit of 300 men in battle against the allied
forces of Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho, counting 5000 men under the leadership of
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The later emerge victorious.
August 1 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
August 8 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
August 31 - Murat V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and succeeded by his
brother Abdul Hamid II.
September 7 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt
to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly wiped out.
November 7 - U.S. presidential election is held. After long and heated disputes, Rutherford
Birchard Hayes would be declared the winner over Samuel Jones Tilden.
November 23 - Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss
Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
November 29 - Porfirio Díaz becomes President of Mexico.
Invention of the four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto.
United States of America Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.Births
January 5 - Konrad Adenauer
, German chancellor 1949-1963 (d. 1967).
January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
January 12 - Jack London
, author (d. 1916).
January 16 - Klara Jacoba van den Houten
January 29 - Havergal Brian
, composer (d. 1972).
January 30 - Marinus van den Houten
Februari 17 - Klara Jacoba van den Houten
February 19 - Constantin Brancusi
March 1 - Henri de Baillet-Latour
, Belgian IOC president.
March 2 - Pope Pius XII
, (d. 1958).
March 3 - Baltus Antonie van den Houten
March 4 - Léon-Paul Fargue
March 11 - Carl Ruggles
, composer (d. 1971).
March 15 - Izak van den Houten
March 21 - John Tewksbury
, American athlete.
April 4 - Maurice de Vlaminck
, lyricist (d. 1958).
April 19 - Aart van den Houten
April 22 - Robert_Barany
, Nobel Prize winner in medicine.
June 5 - Tony Jackson
, jazz musician (d. 1920).
August 7 - Mata Hari
, exotic dancer/spy.
August 17 - Cornelis van den Houten
September 15 - Bruno Walter
, conductor (d. 1962).
September 18 - James Scullin
, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953).
October 21 - Liza van den Berge
November 9 - Adriana Zwijnenburg
November 23 - Manuel de Falla
, composer (d. 1946).
November 24 - Walter Burley Griffin
December 6 - John J. Ploeg Jr
December 9 - Berton Churchill
, pioneer Hollywood actor (d. 1940).
December 12 - Alvin Kraenzlein
, American athlete.
December 21 - Jack Lang
, Australian politician (d. 1975).
December 22 - Cornelis de Voogd
December 24 - Arie Goedegebuur
December 25 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah
, first Governor-General of Pakistan (disputed).
December 27 - Lucy (Lucia) Stoutjesdyk
, German chemist.Stillborn
July 11 - Stillborn van den Houten (girl)
January 13 - Johanna van den Houten
January 16 - Edmund H. Sears
March 19 - Jacob van den Houten
June 25 - George Armstrong Custer
, Lieutenant colonel of the US 7th Cavalry Regiment.
August 6 - George Fruits
, the last surviving U.S. veteran of the American Revolutionary
War at the age of 114.
August 11 - Hendrik van den Houten
October 1 - James Lick
, California land baron.
October 24 - Isabella Rosa van den Houten. (Isabella Rosa van den Haute)
November 12 - Izak van den Houten
November 19 - Cornelis van den Houten
December 19 - Pauline Troast
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