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
