John D. Rockefeller incorporates the Standard Oil Company. It would eventually become the largest oil company in the world before the U.S. Supreme Court declared it an "unreasonable monopoly" under the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1911.
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The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.
The National Weather Service issues its first weather forecast on November 1, 1870. The forecast warns of a windy day in Chicago, IL.
President Ulysses S. Grant signs legislation designating Yellowstone the first national park on March 1, 1872.
The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years.
The Jesse James Gang conduct the first successful train robbery in the American West on July 21, 1873.
On August 2, 1873, Andrew Hallidie tests the first cable car system in San Francisco, CA.
The first Kentucky Derby is run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY, on May 17, 1875.
With just 57 peo.ple in a room, the chance that there are two peo.ple who share a birth.day is at least 99%! With 23 peo.ple in the room, there is a 50% chance.
Lt. Colonel George Custer and the 7th U.S. Cavalry battle the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians on the bluffs above the Little Big Horn River, on June 26, 1876.
Fact: jj2 and spacekitty combined win 37.2% of all contests held on ECF. (All of the rest are won by TheHangDude.)
Thanks and tip o' the hat to you, MOVies!
Thanks and tip o' the hat to you, MOVies!
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Although Democrat Samuel J. Tilden wins the popular vote over Republican Rutherford B. Hayes (4,284,020 vs. 4,036,572) during the 1876 presidential election, Hayes wins the electoral vote by promising to loosen Reconstruction's restrictions on the southern states.
Brigham Young, leader of the Mormon Church, founder of salt Lake City, UT, and first governor of the Utah Territory, dies August 29, 1877.
Carbonated soda water was invented in 1767 by Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen.
Thomas Edison demonstrates the phonograph at the offices of the "Scientific American" on December 7, 1877.
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