May 18 French Government of De Putte resigns

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

May 04 Woodward's Gardens opens to public

May 08 Australian Rules Football is created and I still do not understand the game, sorry all you Aussie's

May 01 American Equal Rights Association forms

May 16 Congress authorizes nickel 5¢ piece (replaces silver half-dime)

May 16 The U S Congress authorizes the minting of a 5-cent coin The nickel is born

May 28 Dutch Government of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms

May 17 The birth of Erik Satie, French composer

May 16 Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer

May 24 Berkeley CA named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)

Jan 11 Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220

Jan 15 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori vs Cechach," premieres in Prague

Jan 09 Fisk University establishes

Jan 20 Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends

Jan 29 The birth of Romain Rolland, French writer

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)

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