Sep 18 NY Times starts publishing

Sep 18 New York Times publishes for the first time

Jun 02 Maine becomes the first state in the Union to enact a law prohibiting alcohol

Jun 02 The first US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)

Jun 15 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up first ice-cream factory

Jun 22 Fire destroys part of San Francisco

Jun 09 San Francisco Committee of Vigilance forms

Jun 03 The first baseball uniforms worn. Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt &blue long trousers

Dec 09 First Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal)

Dec 29 The first YMCA in the USA is organized in Boston.

Dec 10 The birth of Melvil Dewey, Devised the library classification system

Dec 24 Fire devastates Library of Congress in Washington destroys 35,000 volumes

Dec 29 First Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)

Aug 12 Isaac Singer granted patent for his sewing machine

Aug 22 Yacht "America" wins first Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)

Aug 22 Gold fields discovered in Australia

Oct 24 William Lassell discovers Ariel andUmbriel, satellites of Uranus

Oct 01 The first Hawaiian stamps issued

Jul 28 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph

Jul 29 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #15 Eunomia

Jul 28 First ever photograph of a total eclipse of the Sun made

Jul 08 The birth of Arthur Evans, English archaeologist

Mar 11 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto", premieres in Venice

Mar 21 Yosemite Valley discovered in California

Mar 07 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends

Mar 03 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3¢ piece)

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | Next Page »