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Feb 14 Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London
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Feb 21 NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
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Feb 25 Groenkloof Nature Reserve in Pretoria established by President Paul Kruger as the first game sanctuary in Africa
- Feb 26 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio, patents a glass-blowing machine