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Events relating to america
Herman Melville dies in obscurity in New York, with an unpublished manuscript of Billy Budd (not printed till 1924)
Ellis Island in New York Bay opens as the point of reception for arriving immigrants
The Ohio Supreme Court rules that monopolistic practices by Rockefeller's oil company are illegal
San Francisco businessmen found an organization to protect nature, the Sierra Club of California, a powerful environmental pressure group
Leaves of Grass, still growing, is published in its ninth edition in the year of Walt Whitman's death
The closing of the Homestead Steel Works near Pittsburgh in a dispute with unions leads to massive confrontation and violence
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
Former president Grover Cleveland defeats incumbent president Benjamin Harrison, becoming the only US president to serve non-consecutive terms
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
Harold Macmillan is born in London, son of the publisher Maurice Macmillan and his American wife, Nellie Tarleton
Wealthy US astronomer Percival Lowell builds an observatory at Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona
US Socialist Eugene Debs comes to prominence as leader of a strike by railway workers against the Pullman Company
William Randolph Hearst buys the New York Journal, the first of numerous purchases in building up his press empire
Brazil's first civilian president, Prudente de Morais, is peacefully elected, setting the pattern for the next four decades
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
