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

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

Sep 04 The first Hawaiian daily newspaper published

Jun 01 Renegade Irish Fenians invade Fort Erie Ontario from US

Jun 15 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #88 Thisbe

Jun 02 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces

Jun 07 Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Qu‚bec

Jun 15 Prussia attacks Austria

Jun 13 House passes 14th Amendment

Dec 03 Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies

Dec 14 The birth of Roger Fry, English painter and critic

Dec 06 Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed

Dec 11 First yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean

Aug 10 Transatlantic cable laid

Aug 23 Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war

Aug 20 Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over

Oct 06 First train robbery in US

Jul 27 Cyrus W. Field lays the first successful underwater telegraph cable connecting North America and Europe (after two failed attempts).

Jul 28 The birth of Beatrix Potter, English author

Jul 24 Tennessee becomes first Confederate state readmitted to Union

Jul 04 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying much of Portland, Me

Jul 27 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)

Jul 26 Canoe Club opens in England

Jul 10 Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass

Jul 25 US Grant named first general of Army

Jul 28 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US

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

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