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Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; published in Strand Magazine. Sherlock Holmes Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Ubervilles
a zipper Gauguin settles in Tahiti. Beginnings of wireless telegraphy.
W.L. Judson invents the clothing zipper. prehistoric man
In Java, Dutch anthropologist Eugene Dubois discovers Pithecanthropus erectus (Java Man).