Mar 05 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains

Mar 26 Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher

Mar 26 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California

Mar 26 The Owens Valley, California area is rattled by a 7.8 earthquake one of the largest in the United States

Mar 01 Yellowstone becomes world's first national park

Mar 16 The first FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton

Mar 22 Illinois becomes first state to require sexual equality in employment

Mar 16 The first FA Cup Final Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton

Mar 07 -8º F in Boston MA

Aug 24 The birth of Sir Max Beerbohm, British writer and caricaturist

Aug 23 The first Japanese commercial ship visits SF, carrying tea

Sep 14 Britain pays the US $15« M for damages during Civil War

Sep 21 John Henry Conyers of SC becomes first black student at Annapolis

Feb 20 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin

Feb 07 Alcorn A & M College opens

Feb 20 Silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine

Feb 20 Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.

Feb 22 Labor Reform Party formed at Columbus OH

Feb 20 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags

Feb 27 Charlotte Ray, first Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U

Feb 15 In Victoria British Columbia, the Provincial Legislature meets for the first time as a Province of Canada

Feb 01 The birth of Paul Fort, French poet.

Feb 22 First national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH)

Apr 03 J C Watson discovers asteroid #119 Althaea

Apr 10 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #120 Lachesis

Apr 10 Arbor day first celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22

Apr 14 Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act

Apr 20 SF Bar Association organized

Apr 02 Samuel F B Morse developer of electric telegraph dies at 80

Nov 07 Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later

Nov 09 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston

Nov 07 The ship Marie Celeste sails from New York, eventually to be found deserted

Nov 05 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote. (She never paid the fine.)

Dec 04 The ship Mary Celeste was found adrift with crew missing

Dec 11 First black US gov took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)

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