Sep 30 Midway Islands formally declared a US possession

Sep 28 Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario

Jun 20 Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska

Jun 19 The first Belmont Stakes, Ruthless wins

Jun 12 Austro-Hungarian Empire forms

Jun 27 Bank of California opens doors

Jun 25 Barbed wire patented

Dec 27 Ontario & Quebec legislatures hold first meeting

Dec 29 First telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck and Co, New York

Dec 04 Grange organized to protect farm interests

Dec 19 Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)

Dec 23 First self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightener)

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

Oct 05 Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska

Oct 18 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)

Oct 29 Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands

Oct 14 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan

Oct 16 Alaska adopts the Gregorian calendar

Jul 07 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #92 Undina

Jul 01 Dominion of Canada Created by British Parliament

Jul 02 The first US elevated railroad begins service, NYC

Jul 15 SF Merchant's Exchange opens

Jul 17 The first permanent university dental school in US, Harvard

Jul 14 Alfred Nobel demonstrates his new invention, dynamite, for the first time

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

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