Historical Events for February 1876
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Months in 1876: January March April May June July August September October November December
Events 1 - 10 of 10
2nd - Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis
3rd - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
7th - Pres Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
12th - Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop
14th - A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
15th - Historic Elm at Boston blown down
17th - Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine)
18th - Direct telegraph link established between Britain & NZ
22nd - Johns Hopkins University opens
24th - Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," premieres in Oslo
