Dec 22 The birth of Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer

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

Oct 27 RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106

Oct 27 The birth of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

Jul 28 Fingerprints first used as a means of identification, in France

Jul 29 The first commercial treaty between US & Japan signed

Jul 29 US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan

Jul 02 Partial emancipation of Russian serfs

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

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