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- Macau (16856 bytes)
57: ...ered as a port and was a subject of repeated attempts by the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] to conquer it in th...
63: ... This was recognized by the Chinese government in 1887. - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
24: ... record]]s, was invented by [[Emile Berliner]] in 1887, but in the early years, the audio fidelity was w...
29: ...mercial application and was able to sell the concept to homes and businesses by mass-producing relativ...
40: ...formed the [[Oriental Telephone Company]]. On [[September 4]], [[1882]], Edison switched on the world'...
43: ...920s.ogg|title= Edison speech on light bulb|description= Video clip of Thomas Edison talking about the...
58: ...riments. Sprague's approach was to calculate the optimum parameters and thus save much needless tinker... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
75: *[[1875]] - [[Resumption Act]]
109: *[[1887]] - [[Congress]] creates [[Interstate Commerce Co...
110: *[[1887]] - [[Dawes Act]]
111: *[[1887]] - [[Hatch Act]] - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
11: ...tion Act divided ten Confederate states (all except [[Tennessee]], which had been readmitted in [[186...
13: ...ly perceived as being motivated by graft and corruption, while locals who participated in these govern...
15: ...admission to the Union, they were required to accept it (or the fifteenth after passage of the fourtee...
30: ...ers and other Indian tribes. They were equally adept and highly elusive, fighting in their environs of...
32: ... Civil War. In 1876 the last serious Sioux war erupted, when the Dakota gold rush penetrated the Black... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The Gregoria...
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
15: ...discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
28: *[[1892]] - [[Ellis Island]] opens to begin accepting immigrants to the [[United States]].
50: ...Sudan]] achieves independence from the [[Egypt|Egyptian Republic]] and the [[United Kingdom|United Kin... - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
7: ...David Thompson|John Thompson]], although the concept of a Labour Day actually originated with marches ...
9: ... though the two governments were encouraged to adopt May 1 as Labor Day, the date celebrated by the ma...
19: ... the official state endorsement, the NSDAP's attempt to appropriate it left no long-term resentment. - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...has been an annual event since 1903, with the exception of 1904 and 1994. The New York Yankees have th...
3: ...ng in the [[1918 World Series]], completed on [[September 11]], [[1918]].
7: A portion of the gate receipts from the World Series - and, from [[1969]] onwar...
9: ...challenges have been made by other leagues. Attempts to pit the [[North America]]n champions against ...
54: * 1887 [[Detroit Wolverines]] - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
3: ...onsecutive division championships (1991-2004, except for the strike-shortened [[1994 in sports|1994]] ...
6: ...935 in sports|1935]] season, after enduring bankruptcy and a series of poor seasons, new owner [[Bob Q...
10: :'''Logo design:''' The script word "Braves" above a [[tomahawk]]
21: ...raves dominated the series in every phase, and swept away the favored Athletics. They were now World C...
24: ...e remainder of the rotation was so thin that in September the Boston Post journalist Gerald Hern chara... - Cincinnati Reds (19835 bytes)
31: ...p to the pitching. By [[1931]] the team was bankrupt, thanks to the [[Great Depression]], and Redland ...
35: ...ns and for the first time in 21 years, the Reds captured a World Series beating the [[Detroit Tigers]]...
41: ...le]] and [[Bob Purkey]] led the staff. The Reds captured the [[1961]] NL pennant, holding off the [[Lo...
43: ...ed through the 1970 season, won the NL West and captured the NL pennant. By time the club got to the W...
47: ...st championship in 35 years. In 1976, the Reds swept throughout the NL West and proceeded to go 9-0 in... - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
5: ...on]]. Transferred to the [[National League]] in [[1887]].
23: ...urtaugh is widely credited for inventing the concept of the [[closer]] by frequently playing pitcher [...
27: ...ragically in a plane crash in [[1972]] while attempting to ship supplies to the victims of an earthqua...
29: ...uck Tanner]] took over as manager in [[1977]]. Adopting the then-popular [[disco]] anthem "We Are Fami...
37: ...t syndrome." It is felt that Littlefield is attempting, with perhaps mixed success, to follow the blu... - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
15: ...iation pennants won''' (4): [[1885]], [[1886]], [[1887]], [[1888]]
28: ...e National League in [[1892]] following the bankruptcy of the American Association. They were briefly...
37: ...ue team until the 1960s) gained notoriety by attempting to boycott games against the [[Brooklyn Dodger...
40: ...r in [[1968]], the last series before baseball adopted a divisional format.
56: ...[[Roger Maris]]'s 37 year-old record of 61 on [[September 8]] with a low line drive over Busch Stadium... - Golf (35905 bytes)
4: ...les]] and continuously in the United States since 1887 (Foxburg, Pennsylvania). Although often viewed as...
18: ...e ''hole'' must have a diameter of 108 mm and a depth of at least 100 mm. Its position on the green is...
29: ...player plays a ball from the tee to the hole, except that in ''foursomes'', one player from each team ...
58: *a player must not accept assistance in making a stroke (Rule 14-2)
59: ...urse may not be altered to gain an advantage, except in some cases defined in the rules - Groundhog Day (3781 bytes)
6: ...Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania]] on [[February 2]], [[1887]]. In the U.S. the tradition derives from a Scott...
14: ...ct. In fact, about 1,000 years ago, before the adoption of the [[Gregorian calendar]] and because the ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist
161: *[[Leopold Ruzicka]], (1887-1976), [[1939]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
209: *[[Ahmed H. Zewail]] (born 1946), [[Egyptian]], [[1999]] Nobel Prize Winner for his work on... - George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
9: ...cause of a [[lynching]] of a black person. He promptly left, but still carried scars from this inciden...
11: ...is High School in [[Kansas]]. In 1887, he was accepted to [[Simpson College]] in Indianola, Iowa. He ...
13: ...and as a trainer for the athletic teams. He was captain, the highest student rank, of the campus milit...
15: ...is excellence in botany and horticulture that prompted professors Joseph Budd and Louis Pammel to enco... - Softball (19057 bytes)
20: ... normally given a fixed number of pitches to attempt to hit (usually 3 or 4). The batter is considered...
60: ...oved material. In 2002, high-visibility yellow "optic" softballs were introduced as well.
76: Play begins with the pitcher attempting to throw the ball to the catcher past the batt...
103: ...ain safely on a base while play proceeds and attempt to advance. The runner must be on base until the ...
132: ...st version of softball was invented in Chicago in 1887 by [[George Hancock]], a reporter for the Chicago... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
1: This is a partial list of [[sculptor (artist)|sculptor]]s.
26: *[[Harry Bates (sculptor)|Harry Bates]] (1850 - 1899)
55: *[[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]] (1827 - 1875)
116: *[[John Gibson (sculptor)|John Gibson]] (1790 - 1866)
121: *[[Robert Graham (sculptor)|Robert Graham]] (1938 - ) - Hittites (17910 bytes)
7: ...from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonian captivity]]; see [[Hittites in the Bible]]. The archae...
14: ...tes. Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the early 20th century; and ...
15: ... Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the...
23: ...een under way since [[1932]], with wartime interruptions.
27: ...al correspondence found in various archives in Egypt and then Middle East. - Photography (18493 bytes)
7: ...ng, this produces an image whose contents are acceptably sharp, bright and composed to achieve the obj...
17: ... the lens will allow greater control over the [[depth of field]].
20: ...ge]] in his study of human and animal locomotion (1887). Artists have been equally interested by this as...
36: ...tented this process, which greatly limited its adoption. He spent the rest of his life in lawsuits def...
61: ...e colored emulsions. Most modern color films, except Kodachrome, are based on technology developed for... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
20: ...nded when a charter is adopted in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]].
45: *[[1887]] - [[Chico Marx]], [[comedian]], actor (d. [[196...
96: *[[1687]] - [[Jean Baptiste Lully]], French [[composer]] (b. [[1632]])
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