Mar 03 US Congress & government raise own salary, retroactively

Mar 22 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico

Mar 07 US marines attack Panama

Mar 03 Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps

Mar 04 New York Daily Graphic, first illustrated daily newspaper in US, published

Mar 09 Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded

Aug 02 The first trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones

Aug 26 The first US public kindergarten is authorized in St. Louis, MO.

Aug 14 "Forest and Stream" begins publishing

Aug 01 San Francisco - first cable car begins service

Aug 01 The first trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones

Aug 18 The first ascent of Mount Whitney, Calif (14,494')

Sep 20 Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure)

Sep 19 Black Friday Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic

Sep 19 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic

Sep 06 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street

Sep 17 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University

Feb 27 Enrico Carus opera singer: tenor, was born

Feb 27 Enrico Carus opera singer tenor, was born

Feb 12 Congress abolishes bimetallism &authorizes $1 &$3 gold coins

Feb 11 Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I

Feb 27 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor

Feb 25 The birth of Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor

Apr 08 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die

Apr 01 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die

Apr 01 The birth of Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian composer

Apr 08 Alfred Paraf of New York City patented the first successful oleomargarine.

Apr 13 Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed)

Nov 04 Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown

May 23 Postal cards sold in San Fransisco for first time

May 01 The first US postal card issued

May 07 US marines attack Panama

May 23 Canada establishes the North West Mounted Police force (the "Mounties")

May 01 Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Wien (Vienna)

May 09 The birth of Howard Carter, English egyptologist

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