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1855
Apr 25
| 1855 • The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. |
1878
Jan 13
Age: 22y
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birth of childBenjamin Franklin Pile Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1878 • Eadweard Muybridge produces the sequence of stop-motion still photographs Sallie Gardner at a Gallop in California, a predecessor of silent film demonstrating that all four feet of a galloping horse are off the ground at the same time. |
1880
Age: 24y
| 1880 • The SS Columbia completes her maiden voyage, arriving without incident in Portland, Oregon after a stopover in San Francisco, California. |
1882
Age: 26y
| 1882 • The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road") runs its first trains over the entire system between Buffalo, New York, and Chicago. Nine days later the Seney Syndicate sells the road to William Henry Vanderbilt for US$7.2 million. |
1886
Jun 2
Age: 31y
| 1886 • King Ludwig II of Bavaria is detained as part of a deposition, drowning the following day under mysterious circumstances. |
1889
May 3
Age: 34y
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birth of childAlta Verlee Pile Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1889 • The Wisden Cricketers' Almanack publishes its first Wisden Cricketers of the Year (actually titled Six Great Bowlers Of The Year). The cricketers chosen are George Lohmann, Bobby Peel, Johnny Briggs, Charles Turner, John Ferris and Sammy Woods. |
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Age: 35y
1891
Age: 35y
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birth of childAda Edith Pile Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1891 • Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time, in the issue dated July. |
1894
Apr 1
Age: 38y
| 1894 • New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. |
1897
Mar 24
Age: 41y
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birth of childHollis L Pile 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1897 • The Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry, a British Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment, adopts the sub-title Earl of Carrick's Own in honour of the future King Edward VII. |
1937
Nov 30
Age: 82y
