Mar 01 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana

Mar 02 The first US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut

Mar 07 German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt

Mar 21 Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes

Mar 19 Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die

Mar 27 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th Amendment

Mar 07 Canada puts 10,000 militia on alert after Fenians hold meeting in New York and threaten invasion; as precaution against anticipated attacks on St. Patrick's Day.

Mar 30 Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride), premieres

Mar 27 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal

Mar 28 The first ambulance goes into service

Aug 10 Transatlantic cable laid

Aug 23 Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war

Aug 20 Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over

Sep 21 The birth of H.G Wells, English writer

Sep 04 The first Hawaiian daily newspaper published

Feb 04 Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible

Feb 26 New York Legislature establishes NYC Metropolitan Board of Health

Feb 10 Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms

Feb 13 Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty MO ($15,000)

Feb 21 Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes first US woman to earn a DDS degree

Feb 16 The birth of Johann Strauss, Austrian composer.

Apr 13 Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker) born.

Apr 24 Victoria BC is connected to British Columbia mainland via cable and telegraph.

Apr 09 Civil Rights Bill passes over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto

Apr 02 Pres Johnson ends war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn &Va

Apr 10 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms

Apr 10 Campobello New Brunswick Irish American Fenians attack Campobello Island from Eastport, Maine; persuaded to leave by British warships, US agents.

Apr 16 Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Co office explodes

Apr 06 The birth of Butch Cassidy, American 'Wild West' outlaw

Nov 20 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle

Nov 20 The first national convention of Grand Army of the Republic (veterans' organization)

Nov 30 Work begins on first US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago

Nov 04 Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia

Nov 20 Howard University founded (Wash, DC)

Nov 30 Work on the first underwater highway tunnel in the United States began on this day in Chicago, Illinois. Over a three-year period, workers and engineers tunneled underneath the Chicago River, finally completing the 1,500-foot tunnel at a cost of over $500,000

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