Aug 08 Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC

Aug 11 Nation's first successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)

Aug 01 European and North American Railway opens from Saint John, NB to Shediac. The line became part of the Intercolonial Railway on July 1, 1867.

Aug 03 Second Maori War begins

Aug 03 American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY

Oct 08 Telegraph line between LA and SF opens

Oct 13 First aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston

Oct 15 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard

Oct 12 British and French troops capture Peking

Oct 17 First pro golf tournament held in Scotland

Jul 19 The railroad reaches Kansas

Jul 09 Temperature hits 115ø F in Ft Scott & 112ø F in Topeka Kansas

Jul 25 The first US intercollegiate billard match (Harvard vs Yales)

Mar 12 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill; free land in West for colonists

Mar 24 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York

Mar 13 The birth of Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer

Mar 09 The first Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington DC

Mar 27 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)

Mar 21 US extradition treaty with Sweden

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