Mar 18 Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns

Mar 02 Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie

Mar 23 Streetcar patented (Eleazer A Gardner of Philadelphia)

Mar 30 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)

Mar 17 Toronto Ontario St. Patricks Day riot breaks out during parade; one man fatally stabbed

Mar 18 The birth of Rudolf Diesel, German inventor of the Diesel engine

Mar 09 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox

Aug 21 First Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)

Aug 04 First trans-Atlantic cable completed

Aug 15 Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins

Aug 02 The first street mailboxes-Boston, Mass

Aug 03 Source of the Nile river, Lake Victoria, discovered

Aug 07 Ottawa chosen as the capital of Canada by British Queen Victoria

Aug 01 The first street mailboxes-Boston, Mass

Aug 16 Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan

Aug 27 Lincoln and Douglas debate at Freeport, IL.

Aug 05 First transatlantic telegraph cable laid

Sep 01 The first transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month

Sep 16 First overland mail for California

Sep 28 Donati's comet becomes the first to be photographed

Feb 21 Edwin T Holmes installs first electric burglar alarm (Boston MA)

Feb 11 First apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France

Feb 01 Douglas Law goes into effect in British Columbia; miners required to buy licenses to search for gold in the Fraser Valley.

Feb 13 Sir Richard Burton &John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa

Feb 22 Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in New York NY

Apr 04 Asteroid 54, Kalypso discovered (named for goddess of silence)

Apr 13 John Quinn's Peninsula Hotel destroyed when storm cuts channel through peninsula, creating Toronto Island.

Apr 23 The birth of Max Planck, German physicist

Apr 15 Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists

Apr 04 R Luther discovers asteroid #53 Kalypso

Dec 22 The birth of Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer

May 11 Minnesota becomes the 32nd state of the Union (USA)

May 15 Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London

May 28 Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play" premieres in London

May 08 John Brown holds antislavery convention

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