Mar 16 Hiram R Revels makes the first official speech by a black in the Senate
Mar 04 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th President
Mar 18 The birth of Neville Chamberlain, Former British prime minister
Mar 01 Postage stamps showing scenes are first issued
Mar 13 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
Mar 21 The birth of Florenz Ziegfield, American impresario
Mar 03 University of South Carolina opens to all races
Aug 17 The first international boat race (Thames River) (Oxford beats Harvard)
Aug 23 The first carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
Aug 01 First raft voyage down Colorado River
Aug 24 Waffle iron invented
Sep 06 The first westbound train arrives in SF
Sep 24 The Black Friday Wall Street panic occurs when financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market.
Sep 22 The opera "Das Rheingold" is produced (Munich)
Sep 24 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
Sep 06 Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
Sep 10 Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
Feb 19 US Assay Office in Boise ID authorized
Feb 26 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
Feb 11 Patrick James Whelan c1840-1869 hanged in a snowstorm before a crowd of 5,000 people for the murder of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Feb 15 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
Feb 06 Harper's Weekly publishes first picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
Feb 23 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
Feb 02 James Oliver invents the removable tempered steel plow blade
Feb 20 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
