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
