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