The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States on January 28, 1878.
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Joe Theisman's prostate is no longer giving him "fits" thanks to Super Beta Prostate.
Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on December 31, 1879.
President James Garfield is shot on July 2, 1881, by Charles Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker. Following Garfield's death on September 19, Chester A. Arthur is sworn in as president on September 20.
Booker T. Washington opens the Tuskegee Institute [today's Tuskegee University] on July 4, 1881, in Tuskegee, AL.
A gunfight breaks out near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ, on October 26, 1881, when the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday attempt to disarm Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury. When the dust settled, Billy Clanton and Frank and Tom McLaury were dead.
Thomas Edison's Pearl Street Station in New York City begins generating electricy to supply 400 street lamps and 85 customers with electrical power on September 4, 1882.
On March 11-14, 1888, the "Great Blizzard of 1888" blankets parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut with up to 50 inches of snow.
At noon on April 22, 1889, a starting gun announced the start of the "Oklahoma Land Rush." Approximately 50,000 would-be settlers rush to stake their claim to the 1.92 million acres of land previously given to American Indian tribes.
Blizzard in South Dakota!! Yay! Ok not a fact since its always a blizzard in SD
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