Today in United States of America History (Part 4)
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Related Topics: American Civil War - American Indian Wars - American Revolutionary War - Civil Rights - Cold War
Historical Events
Results 301 - 400 of 1,274
1866-06-07 - 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1867-01-08 - African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
1867-09-28 - The United States takes control of Midway Island.
1867-12-02 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1867-12-28 - United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
1868-11-11 - 1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC)
1868-11-13 - American Philological Association organized in NY
1868-12-05 - 1st American bicycle college opens (NY)
1869-04-08 - American Museum of Natural History opens (NYC)
1869-10-26 - 1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY)
1869-11-24 - American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)
1869-12-10 - The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
1870-04-09 - American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
1870-06-22 - 1st Boardwalk in America invented
1870-06-26 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1870-08-08 - Magic (US) defeats Cambria (Engld) in 2nd running of America's Cup
1871-10-23 - Columbia & Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup
1873-01-17 - A group of Modoc warriors defeat the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War.
1873-08-04 - Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
1873-12-30 - American Metrological Society forms (NYC) weights, measures & money
1874-03-18 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
1874-11-25 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1875-10-22 - Sons of American Revolution organizes
1875-12-09 - Massachusetts Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded.
1876-01-31 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
1876-08-12 - Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
1876-10-06 - American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1876-11-25 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1877-01-08 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).
1877-05-05 - Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1877-06-01 - Society of American Artists forms
1877-10-09 - American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)
1877-11-09 - American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1877-12-22 - "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
1878-05-24 - CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston
1878-07-26 - In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
1878-08-21 - American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
1880-02-16 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (NYC)
1880-03-01 - Pennsylvania is 1st American state to abolish slavery
1880-05-31 - League of American Wheelmen (1st US bicycle assn), forms in Newport RI
1881-05-21 - American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
1881-10-15 - 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published
1881-11-15 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1882-04-03 - American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
1882-12-11 - Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
1883-02-23 - American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Phila)
1883-05-01 - NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
1883-11-03 - US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans
1883-11-03 - American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
1883-11-06 - NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
1884-05-01 - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
1884-12-01 - American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy.
1885-03-03 - American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
1885-07-01 - The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1885-08-10 - Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
1885-09-16 - Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup
1886-06-01 - The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31.
1886-09-11 - Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup
1886-12-08 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1887-02-08 - The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
1887-03-02 - American Trotting Association organized in Detroit
1887-03-03 - American Protective Assn forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa
1887-09-30 - Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup
1887-11-23 - Opera "Trumpeter of Säckingen" 1st American production (NYC)
1888-02-22 - John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
1888-06-23 - Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president
1888-09-11 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day is chosen.
1888-10-20 - Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ
1889-02-09 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
1889-08-29 - 1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
1889-10-02 - 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
1889-10-02 - In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1889-12-14 - American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Phila
1890-01-25 - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago
1890-01-25 - United Mine Workers of America forms
1890-04-14 - Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC)
1890-06-06 - United States Polo Association forms, NYC
1890-08-08 - Daughters of American Revolution organizes
1890-10-11 - Daughters of American Revolution forms
1891-07-26 - Henry James' "American," premieres in London
1891-08-05 - 1st travelers checks issued (American Express)
1891-09-20 - The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
1892-04-19 - Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (Mass)
1892-05-19 - National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
1892-07-08 - American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass
1892-08-13 - US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
1893-02-24 - The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America.
1893-07-22 - Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful," in Colorado
1893-10-13 - Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (Engld) in 9th America's Cup
1894-05-11 - American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co
1894-06-25 - American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike
1894-12-22 - United States Golf Association forms (NYC)
1895-06-28 - El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua form Central American Union
1895-07-04 - Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
1895-08-19 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
1895-09-09 - American Bowling Congress forms (NYC)
1895-09-12 - Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (Engld) in 10th America's Cup
1895-11-28 - America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH
1895-12-17 - Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC
1896-03-08 - Volunteers of America forms (NYC)
Famous Birthdays
Results 301 - 400 of 9,097
1839-03-09 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
1839-07-17 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
1839-09-10 - Charles Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
1840-07-25 - Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution
1840-09-27 - Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America
1841-05-10 - James Gordon Bennett Jr., American publisher (d. 1918)
1841-07-05 - William C. Whitney, American financier (d. 1904)
1841-09-08 - Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of James A. Garfield (d. 1882)
1841-11-13 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Brevet Brigadier General (d. 1913)
1841-12-05 - Marcus Daly, American mining tycoon (d. 1900)
1842-03-28 - William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officier (d. 1908)
1842-12-03 - Phoebe Hearst, American socialite (d. 1919)
1842-12-03 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (d. 1899)
1843-01-08 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
1843-01-10 - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
1843-04-15 - Henry James, American/British author (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians), (d. 1916)
1843-11-25 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
1843-11-27 - Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899)
1843-12-23 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1924)
1844-06-01 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War hero (d. 1911)
1844-07-25 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
1844-09-20 - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)
1844-10-12 - George W Cable, American writer (Northampton Years)
1844-10-30 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
1844-11-10 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)
1845-06-22 - Tom Dula, American folk character (Tom Dooley) (d. 1868)
1845-08-24 - James C. Calhoun, American soldier, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
1845-11-03 - Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
1845-12-12 - Bruce Price, American architect (d. 1903)
1846-02-10 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
1846-02-14 - Julian Scott, American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient. (d. 1901)
1846-06-11 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
1846-07-19 - Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist
1846-07-26 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
1846-08-23 - Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
1846-09-05 - John W Cromwell, Secy (American Negro Academy)
1846-11-25 - Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911)
1847-08-23 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
1848-02-20 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d. 1909)
1848-03-18 - Nathaniel Herreshoff, America Cup yacht designer
1848-08-22 - Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
1848-09-04 - Jennie Lee, American actress (d. 1925)
1849-04-17 - William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1923)
1849-06-29 - John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
1850-01-10 - John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
1850-01-18 - Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916)
1850-01-27 - Samuel Gompers, Dutch/US 1st president (American Federation of Labor)
1850-03-07 - Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921)
1850-04-16 - Herbert Baxter Adams, US, historian (American Historical Assn)
1850-04-20 - Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor (Minute Man)
1850-06-05 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
1850-06-19 - David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932)
1850-07-11 - Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (d. 1938)
1850-07-18 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (d. 1939)
1850-11-05 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
1850-12-09 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
1851-01-17 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928)
1851-02-01 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (d. 1908)
1851-03-19 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936)
1851-04-13 - Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928)
1851-07-07 - Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (d. 1933)
1851-08-14 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist (d. 1887)
1851-09-07 - Edward Ashael Birge, American pioneer in limnology (d. 1950)
1851-11-06 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal) (d.1902)
1851-12-21 - Thomas Chipman McRae, American politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1929)
1852-01-08 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
1852-04-13 - F.W. Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)
1852-09-15 - Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
1853-01-17 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (d. 1933)
1853-11-09 - Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1853-11-13 - John Drew Jr., American actor (d. 1927)
1853-11-24 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (d. 1921)
1853-11-28 - Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)
1854-01-09 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
1854-04-01 - Bill Traylor, American artist (d. 1949)
1854-05-24 - John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918)
1854-09-17 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
1854-10-26 - C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914)
1855-01-23 - John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)
1855-07-30 - James Edward Kelly, US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History"
1855-10-24 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
1855-11-06 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
1855-12-05 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American ornithologist (d. 1942)
1856-03-09 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)
1856-05-13 - Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938)
1856-08-12 - "Diamond Jim" Brady, American financier (d. 1917)
1857-01-09 - Henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights)
1857-02-17 - Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher
1857-05-07 - William A. MacCorkle, American politician (d. 1930)
1857-07-28 - Ballington Booth, co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
1857-09-06 - Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
1858-01-11 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
1858-06-20 - Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (d. 1932)
1858-07-13 - Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)
1859-07-28 - Balington Booth, founder (Volunteers of America)
1859-08-12 - Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful)
1859-09-18 - Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (d. 1940)
1859-11-23 - Billy The Kid, American outlaw (d. 1881)
1859-11-24 - Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
1860-03-02 - Susanna M. Salter, American politician (d. 1961)
Famous Deaths
Results 301 - 400 of 3,298
1899-10-30 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
1900-01-22 - David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
1900-02-18 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
1900-03-19 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815)
1900-09-23 - William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
1900-12-21 - Roger Wolcott, American political figure, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1847)
1901-01-21 - Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
1901-04-19 - Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
1901-09-25 - Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1901-11-27 - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
1902-02-18 - Charles Lewis Tiffany, American founder of Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
1902-04-02 - Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814)
1902-05-26 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
1902-09-26 - Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
1902-10-26 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
1902-12-04 - Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company - Wall Street Journal) (b. 1851)
1903-03-16 - Roy Bean, American jurist
1903-05-29 - Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
1903-07-22 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
1903-08-28 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
1904-02-02 - William C. Whitney, American financier (b. 1841)
1905-02-20 - Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
1905-03-06 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
1905-04-28 - Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)
1905-07-08 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
1906-02-18 - John Batterson Stetson, American manufacturer (b. 1830)
1906-03-13 - Susan B[rownell] Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85
1906-04-11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
1906-09-20 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
1906-11-04 - John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
1907-04-23 - Alfred Packer, American Cannibal (b. 1842)
1907-05-26 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
1907-06-27 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
1907-08-30 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
1908-03-11 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)
1908-03-25 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
1908-07-10 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
1908-08-26 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (b. 1837)
1909-04-09 - Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
1909-06-10 - Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
1909-06-24 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
1909-09-09 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
1909-11-10 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
1909-12-26 - Frederic Remington, American artist (b. 1861)
1910-06-05 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
1910-07-04 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
1910-08-26 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
1910-12-31 - John Moisant, American aviator (b. 1868)
1910-12-31 - Arch Hoxsey, American aviator (b. 1884)
1911-01-24 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
1911-03-13 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)
1911-04-13 - George Washington Glick, American politician (b. 1827)
1911-04-13 - John McLane, American politician (b. 1852)
1911-06-09 - Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader, dies
1911-06-11 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (b. 1815)
1911-08-08 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
1911-10-29 - Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC
1911-11-09 - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1912-04-12 - Clara Barton, organizer (American Red Cross), dies at 90
1912-04-15 - William T. Stead American author and journalist. (b. 1849)
1912-05-25 - Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
1912-10-30 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
1912-11-28 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)
1913-07-07 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)
1913-10-10 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
1914-05-09 - C.W. Post, American food manufacturer (b. 1854)
1914-12-27 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor (b. 1863)
1915-03-21 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (b. 1856)
1915-04-16 - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
1915-04-25 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
1915-07-16 - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
1915-08-26 - John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863)
1915-09-11 - William Sprague IV, American politician (b. 1830)
1915-09-11 - William Cornelius Van Horne, American railway executive (b. 1843)
1915-09-13 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1916-01-03 - Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)
1916-01-08 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
1916-04-19 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
1916-06-25 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
1916-07-04 - Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
1916-07-18 - Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
1916-07-22 - James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
1916-10-28 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
1916-10-31 - Charles Taze Russell, American founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852)
1916-11-12 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
1916-11-14 - Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862)
1916-11-24 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
1917-03-25 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832)
1917-08-01 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
1917-10-13 - Florence La Badie, American actress
1917-12-17 - Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (b. 1878)
1918-01-08 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
1918-03-20 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)
1918-05-14 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
1918-05-19 - Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
1918-07-30 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
1918-08-01 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
1918-09-28 - Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
1918-10-19 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
1918-10-22 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)
