Aug 15 Transcontinental Railway actually completed

Aug 13 Armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal

Aug 17 Western Australia is granted representative government

Aug 06 White conservatives suppresed black vote &captured Tenn legislature

Aug 16 Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion

Oct 25 Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore

Oct 02 Rome becomes the capital city of Italy

Oct 02 Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital

Oct 19 Four blacks elected to House of Representatives

Jul 15 Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada

Jul 01 James W Smith of SC is first black to enter West Point

Jul 19 France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins

Jul 15 Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province & NW Territories created

Jul 08 Congress authorizes registration of trademarks

Jul 15 Georgia becomes last confederate state to be readmitted to US

Jul 08 Gov Holden of NC declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection

Jul 24 The first trans-US rail service begins

Jul 30 Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100

Mar 14 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible

Mar 31 Thomas P Mundy became first black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ)

Mar 07 Wyoming women allowed on juries; the right later was taken away.

Mar 30 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race

Mar 30 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union

Mar 17 Massachusetts legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary

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