Jan 1st The Prescott & Arizona Railroad is completed with the ceremonial driving of the golden spike
Jan 6th The Great "Die-Up": A 72-hour blizzard brings record low temperatures to much of the west killing hundreds of thousands of cattle and many settlers
Jan 20th The Senate ratifies its treaty with Hawaii, guaranteeing sole rights to build a naval base in Pearl Harbor
Jan 28th Arizona experiences its first train robbery
Jan 28th The largest snowflakes on record are recorded in Fort Keogh, MT measuring 15" wide by 8" thick
Feb 2nd In Punxsutawney, PA, the first Groundhog Day is observed
Feb 4th The Interstate Commerce Act is passed thus regulating rates & practices of railroads
Feb 8th The Dawes Severalty Act is passed giving 160 acres of land to each Indian family
Feb 21st In Oregon, the state declares Labor Day a legal holiday
April Nicola Tesla starts the Tesla Electric Company
May Doc Holliday, 35, checks into a sanitorium in Glenwood Springs, CO to be treated for tuberculosis
Aug 10th In Chatsworth, IL a burning bridge collapses under the weight of a crossing train killing 100 & injuring many more
Nov 8th John Henry "Doc" Holliday dies of tuberculosis
Nov 8th General Nelson Miles receives a hero's welcome in Tucson upon his return from a campaign against the Apaches
Other
Theodore Roosevelt organizes the Boone & Crocket Club for the protection of big game
U.S. telephone listings reach 200,000
Nicola Tesla patents the brushless alternating induction motor (electric motor)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes detective story, "A Study in Scarlet"
Births
May 27th Jim Thorpe (Athlete)
Aug 12th Erwin Schrodinger (Physicist/Author/Philosopher)
Dec 25th Conrad Hilton (Entrepreneur/Founder, Hilton Hotels)
Deaths
Mar 8th James B. Eads (Civil Engineer/Inventor)
Nov. 8th John Henry "Doc" Holliday (Dentist/Gambler)
