Mar 30 US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ an acre-Seward's Folly)

Mar 11 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos", premieres in Paris France

Mar 23 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto

Mar 12 Last French troops leave Mexico

Mar 30 Alaska purchased from Russia for 7.2 million dollars, by America

Mar 15 Michigan becomes first state to tax property to support a university

Mar 02 Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah MO, 1 dead

Mar 02 US Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act

Mar 01 Nebraska becomes the 37th state to join the Union.

Mar 11 Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)

Mar 29 British North America Act (Canadian constitution) is passed

Mar 25 The birth of Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor

Mar 07 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans

Mar 02 Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico

Mar 29 Congress approves Lincoln Memorial

Mar 02 US Congress creates the Department of Education

Aug 28 US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific

Aug 01 Blacks vote for first time in a state election in South (Tennessee)

Aug 25 Scientist Michael Faraday dies.

Aug 12 Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton

Aug 15 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England

Aug 14 The birth of John Galsworthy, English playwright and novelist

Sep 09 Luxembourg gains independence

Sep 13 Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors

Sep 30 Midway Islands formally declared a US possession

Sep 28 Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario

Feb 01 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days

Feb 03 Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)

Feb 14 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company issues first policy

Feb 06 Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South

Feb 09 Nebraska becomes 37th US state

Feb 13 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna

Apr 24 In Manhattan, Kansas a 5.1 quake is the largest historical earthquake in Kansas.

Apr 25 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade

Apr 24 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars

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