Oct 272008
Births
- Venerable Alejandro González Blanco
- Venerable Giuseppina Maria de Micheli
- Venerable Guillermo Álvarez Quemada
- Venerable Miguel Solas del Val
Founded
Elevations
Other Events
- miraculous cure at Lourdes of Sister Josephine-Marie
- Idaho becomes 43rd state
- Luxembourg declares independence from the Netherlands
- United States Census Bureau first uses tabulating machine to count census returns
- Wyoming becomes 44th state
- Saint John Damascene proclaimed Doctor of the Church
- Indian massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
- corrugated cardboard box invented
- first Army-Navy football game
- first execution by electric chair
- first geothermal well dug
- founding of the Daughters of the American Revolution
- founding of the United Mine Workers of America
| 1889 | 1891 |