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

Jan 06 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"

Jan 06 US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal

Jan 14 "Celluloid" registered as a trademark

Jan 06 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"

Jan 06 US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal

Jan 07 The birth of Adolph Zukor, American film producer

Jan 13 PBS Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana Governor

Jan 11 The first livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago

Jan 07 The birth of Charles Peguy, French poet

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

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

Jun 13 J C Watson discovers asteroid #132 Aethra

Jun 02 Ground broken on Clay St (SF) for world's first cable railroad

Jun 22 Prince Edward Island joins Canada

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