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Events relating to north america
Leaves of Grass, still growing, is published in its ninth edition in the year of Walt Whitman's death
Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first football pro when the Allegheny Athletic Association pay him $500 to play a game in their team
Dvorák takes a job in New York as director of the National Conservatory, returning to Prague in 1895
In a sensational trial in Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the charge of killing her father and stepmother with an axe
US author Stephen Crane cannot find a publisher for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, so issues it privately
Decline in the federal gold reserve and panic by investors prompts a spectacular crash in the US economy
George Westinghouse demonstrates the advantages of AC (Alternating Current) when he provides 100,000 lights for the Chicago World's Fair
Anton Dvorák's Ninth Symphony, subtitled 'From the New World', has its first performance in New York
Wealthy US astronomer Percival Lowell builds an observatory at Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona
William Randolph Hearst buys the New York Journal, the first of numerous purchases in building up his press empire
Stephen Crane succeeds handsomely with his second novel, The Red Badge of Courage, set in the American Civil War
Joshua Slocum sails from Boston in his sloop Spray for his attempt at a solo circumnavigation of the world
The USGA (US Golf Association) stages the first national amateur and open championships
Utah is admitted to the union as the 45th state, after the Mormons agree to give up polygamy
The prolific US poet Edwin Arlington Robinson publishes The Torrent and the Night Before, his first poems about the fictional Tilbury Town
The US Supreme Court rules in Plessey v. Ferguson that it is legal for a state to provide 'separate but equal' facilities for blacks
Canada's first French-speaking and Roman Catholic premier, Wilfrid Laurier, wins the first of four consecutive spells as premier
US engineer Henry Ford test-drives his first four-wheel internal-combustion vehicle, the Quadricycle, built in a coal shed behind his home
Reports of gold in what becomes known as Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike, prompt a massive gold rush into the Yukon
Henry James views the feckless adults in Maisie's life through the eyes of the child herself in What Maisie Knew
Adolph Ochs, a new proprietor of The New York Times, coins the slogan 'All the News That's Fit to Print'
Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes Women and Economics, developing the feminist theme in US cultural and political life
Joshua Slocum reaches Newport, Rhode Island, after sailing 46,000 miles to achieve the first solo voyage round the world
US basketball becomes a professional game with the establishment in Philadelphia of the National Basketball League
5-year-old Mary Pickford plays her first professional role on stage
