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NOV 7: On the route Paris -Rouen the first international road bicycle race in the world takes place. It wins James Moore.

Young Tom Morris wins for the second time The Open Championship in golf. The second place goes to his father, Old Tom Morris.

January 5: The Scottish football club Kilmarnock FC was founded as a cricket club.
April 17: With the Eimsbütteler Velocipeden club, the first German Cycling Club is created in Altona / Elbe. On September 10, the club organized in the framework of an industrial exhibition, a first race with participants from France, Denmark and England.
June 1: After have been approved by the National Association of Baseball Players first professional team in the previous year, shall be established as the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully composed of professional baseball team. In the same year the team achieves the only " Perfect Season" in the history of baseball with 65:0 victories.

History of the Bicycle: The car maker Pierre Michaux founded in Paris a bicycle factory.

March 7: Henri Béconnais, French race car driver († 1904)
MAY 12: Carl Schuhmann, German gymnasts, wrestlers, weightlifters and track and field athlete, Olympic champion († 1949)
May 20: Joshua Pim, English tennis player († 1942)

October 3: Alfred Flatow, German gymnast and Olympic gold medalist († 1942)
December 2: Willy Pöge, German entrepreneur, horses, cycling and motor sports († 1914)
December 6: Mathieu Cordang, Dutch cyclist († 1942)

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