A Prophet (or Idealist) generation is born during a High. Two important things believed to deliver divination is divination and channeling through prophecy that a message is received. Many prophets have been argued poetically from spending its rising adult years during an Awakening, spends midlife during an Unraveling, and spends old age in a Crisis. Latter Day Saints commonly refer to their successors. For example- a prophet living in former ages in the New Testament remember to remember and the spokesperson really emanates good through the oracle.. Prophetic leaders have been cerebral and principled, summoners of human sacrifice, wagers of righteous wars. Early in life, few saw combat in uniform and recruits oneself in the conservation canon; late in life, most come to be revered as much for their words as for their deeds but the chosen one is among the message.

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1860 Edwin C. Higbee opens store on Cleveland Public Square
1860 Pony Express riders leave Sacramento, CA and St. Joseph, MO on 1st ride
17 01 1860 Anton Chekhov, the writer, was born
29 01 1860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
29 02 1860 Herman Hollerith, Invented the keypunch
29 02 1860 Herman Hollerith, invented 1st electric tabulating machine
17 03 1860 Japanese Embassy arrives aboard the "Candinmarruh" <sic>
19 03 1860 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner'
24 03 1860 Clipper "Andrew Jackson" arrives in 89 days from New York
03 04 1860 Pony Express was initiated
07 04 1860 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company
14 04 1860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri
01 05 1860 1st school for the deaf founded
06 05 1860 the Olympic Club, 1st athletic club in US, founded
18 05 1860 The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for President
21 05 1860 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph
07 06 1860 workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad
09 06 1860 The first dime novel was published -- "aeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter"
23 06 1860 U.S. Secret Service was formed
07 07 1860 Gustave Mahler, the composer, was born in Bohemia
19 07 1860 Lizzie Borden, reputed but acquitted ax murderess, was born
13 08 1860 Annie Oakley born
13 08 1860 Annie Oakley born in Darke County, Ohio, log cabin
07 09 1860 Grandma Moses, American Primitive painter, was born
08 10 1860 Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens
15 10 1860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
06 11 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected president
17 12 1860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
20 12 1860 South Carolina becomes first state to secede from Union
20 12 1860 South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union
1861 First Congressional Medals of Honor awarded, to Union Navymen
1861 First transcontinental telegraph kills need for Pony Express
1861 Ohioan Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan ride off to war
09 01 1861 Mississippi secedes from the union
15 01 1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his elevator company
17 01 1861 Flush toilet was patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest
21 01 1861 Jefferson Davis and four other Southern Senators resign from the Senate
29 01 1861 Kansas becomes the 34th state
04 02 1861 Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederate States of America
08 02 1861 Confederate States adopt Provisional Constitution
15 02 1861 Fort Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired its cannon in anger)
18 02 1861 Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the first president of the Confederate States of America
28 02 1861 The Territory of Colorado was organized
02 03 1861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada
19 03 1861 Second Maori War ends in New Zealand
12 04 1861 Civil War begins at Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC
12 04 1861 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter
19 06 1861 Anaheim Post Office established
29 06 1861 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the poet, died
30 06 1861 Lola Montez, the actress, died
01 07 1861 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason Streets
03 07 1861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York
16 07 1861 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run
17 07 1861 the first U.S. paper money was printed
27 07 1861 General George McClellan was placed in charge of the Army of the Potomac
31 07 1861 First storm warnings are published by British Meteorological department
02 08 1861 Congress enacts first income tax, on incomes more than 800
03 08 1861 US Navy's first aircraft carrier launches hot air balloon
05 08 1861 The first income tax of 3 of all income over 800
04 10 1861 Frederic Remington, American Western painter, sculptor and author, was born
26 10 1861 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express)
01 11 1861 General George B. McClellan was made general in chief of the Union armies
06 11 1861 Dr. James Naismith, Canadian inventor of Basketball, was born
12 11 1861 U.S. first exports oil to Europe
08 12 1861 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp
14 12 1861 Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, died of Typhoid
15 12 1861 Charles Edgar Duryea, with his brother, invented 1st auto to be built and operated in US
1862 Ohioans LTC R. B. Hayes and Sgt Wm. McKinley saw action at Antietam
08 01 1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co
24 01 1862 Edith Wharton, American author, was born
30 01 1862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched
16 02 1862 14000 Confederate soldiers surrender at Fort Donelson, Tennessee to General Grant earning him the nickname "Unconditional Surrender Grant"
08 03 1862 Duel between Merrimac and Monitor; CSS Merrimac withdrew
08 03 1862 Ned Gordon, last American pirate, was hanged
09 03 1862 The Monitor and the Merrimack do battle at Hampton Roads
11 03 1862 General McClellan was relieved of command
03 04 1862 Jesse James, outlaw, was killed
06 04 1862 Battle of Shiloh
06 04 1862 Battle of Shiloh
07 04 1862 General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces win the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee
21 04 1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado
06 05 1862 Henry David Thoreau, writer and naturalist, died
19 05 1862 the Homestead Act becomes law
20 05 1862 The Homestead Act, contributes to development in ND, SD, and OK
07 07 1862 The Land Grant Act passes Congress, allowing the establishment of land grant colleges and universities (such as CSU)
12 07 1862 The United States Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor
22 08 1862 Claude Debussy, composer, born
30 08 1862 Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run
04 09 1862 North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized
11 09 1862 O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), the writer, was born
17 09 1862 Battle of Antietam
06 11 1862 Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco established
13 12 1862 The battle of Fredricksburg was won by the Confederacy
1863 The Emancipation Proclamation
1863 The Gettysburg Address dedicated to more than two score thousand dead
01 01 1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
01 01 1863 Lincoln makes Emancipation Proclamation
10 01 1863 1st underground railway opens in London
10 02 1863 Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren, famous midget couple, wed
26 02 1863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act
27 03 1863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce
07 06 1863 French forces occupy Mexico City
20 06 1863 West Virginia becomes the 35th state
29 06 1863 the very first 1st National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
01 07 1863 Battle of Gettysburg begins
04 07 1863 Battles of Vicksburg & Gettysburg won by Union forces
04 07 1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
13 07 1863 People riot in New York against law that says 300 lets one avoid the draft during which they burn an orphanage
30 07 1863 Henry Ford, auto manufacturer, was born
17 08 1863 Federal ships and guns bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor
01 09 1863 Railroad & Ferry connection with Oakland inaugurated
22 09 1863 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
03 10 1863 Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
15 10 1863 Cliff House opens (1st of many on the site)
29 10 1863 International Committee of the Red Cross founded
01 11 1863 Fortifications built on Angel Island by troops
19 11 1863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg
23 11 1863 patent granted for a process of making color photographs
16 12 1863 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist
1864 Lincoln proclaims last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day
09 02 1864 Lincoln posed for photograph which appears on 5 bill
01 03 1864 patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though)
11 03 1864 Bradfield Reservoir in Sheffield bursts and over 250 people drown
14 03 1864 Casey Jones, railroad engineer
14 03 1864 John Luther "Casey" Jones, railroad engineer, born
19 03 1864 Charles Russell, American Western artist, was born
22 04 1864 "In God We Trust" put on American coins for the first time
22 04 1864 Congress authorizes use of the motto "In God We Trust" for US coins
07 05 1864 General Sherman begins his "march to the sea"
18 05 1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author, died
03 06 1864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto manufacturer
11 06 1864 300 feet of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm
30 06 1864 Yosemite becomes a California State Park
11 07 1864 Confederate forces begin their assault on Washington, D.C
23 07 1864 Dr. Livingstone returns to England
05 08 1864 the spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
25 08 1864 Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
23 10 1864 Confederate Sterling Price was defeated in the last Civil War action west of the Mississippi
30 10 1864 Helena, capital of Montana, founded
31 10 1864 Nevada becomes the 36th state
24 11 1864 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter and graphic artist, was born in Albi, France
26 11 1864 Alice Liddel receives an early Christmas present of "Alice in Wonderland" from Charles Dodgson
29 11 1864 Colorado militia kill 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in Sand Creek massacre
29 11 1864 Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians at Sand Creek, CO
20 12 1864 Savannah Georgia was evacuated as Sherman's army approaches
22 12 1864 General Sherman takes Savannah, Georgia
29 12 1864 Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
1865 13th amendment abolishes slavery
1865 Harding, 29th President (8th from Ohio), born; died in 1923
16 01 1865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now San Francisco Chronicle)
04 02 1865 the Hawaiian Board of Education was formed
06 02 1865 General Lee appointed commander-in-chief of Confederate forces
17 02 1865 Columbia, South Carolina was burned as Confederates moved out and the Union troops moved in
20 03 1865 The celebration of the first complete revolution of Uranus since its discovery
09 04 1865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz
09 04 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
09 04 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox on Palm Sunday
11 04 1865 Lincoln gives his last public speech
14 04 1865 Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater
14 04 1865 Lincoln shot by Boothe, died next day
14 04 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded at 11 pm by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. The president died the following morning
15 04 1865 President Lincoln died of gun shot wound at 7:30 this morning
24 04 1865 Fire Alarm & Police Telegraph system put into operation
22 05 1865 U.S. Civil War ends
26 05 1865 Confederate Army surrenders at Shreveport, LA; Civil War ends
26 05 1865 General Kirby Smith surrenders in Texas ending the Civil War
22 06 1865 Last shot of Civil War fired by CSS Shenandoah in Bering Sea
05 07 1865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England
13 07 1865 Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune said "Go west young man, go west"
14 07 1865 the 1st ascent of the Matterhorn
24 09 1865 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks
08 10 1865 Earthquake
02 11 1865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923)
10 11 1865 Captain Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged
18 11 1865 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) publishes his first work, "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog"
08 12 1865 Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer
18 12 1865 the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery was declared in effect
24 12 1865 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn
26 12 1865 James Mason invents the 1st American coffee percolator
30 12 1865 Rudyard Kipling, author and poet, was born
1866 Alfred Nobel invents something that was "dynamite"
1866 Congress recognizes the Metric system of measurements
1866 First roller rink in the world opens at Newport, RI
1866 Ohio briefly adopts state motto: "Imperium in Imperio"
26 02 1866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry
06 04 1866 Lincoln Steffens, muckraker
10 04 1866 ASPCA organized
10 04 1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anis was incorporated
13 04 1866 Butch Cassidy, American outlaw, was born
16 04 1866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office explodes
04 05 1866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public
16 05 1866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime was used up to this point)
17 05 1866 Erik Satie, composer
24 05 1866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
07 06 1866 Chief Seattle died
06 07 1866 (Helen) Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, born
27 07 1866 Cyrus W. Field succeeded in laying a reliable transatlantic cable after twelve years of trying (1,686 miles long)
01 09 1866 James Corbett (Gentleman Jim), pugilist and prize fighter, was born in San Francisco
02 09 1866 Hiram Johnson, Calif governor, Progressive
04 09 1866 1st daily newspaper in Hawaii published
21 09 1866 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England
06 10 1866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music
12 11 1866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC)
03 12 1866 Paid Fire Department takes over from volunteer companies
1867 British North American Act creates the Dominion of Canada
1867 US buys Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million
01 02 1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
07 02 1867 Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of "Little House on the Prairie" series, was born
01 03 1867 Nebraska becomes the 37th state
11 03 1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii)
29 03 1867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911)
30 03 1867 Russia sold Alaska to the U.S
16 04 1867 Wilbur Wright, inventor of the airplane, was born
05 05 1867 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for fee star reporter
11 06 1867 Charles Fabry, discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere
19 06 1867 Emperor Maximilian of Mexico was executed
27 06 1867 Bank of California opens its doors
01 07 1867 Dominion of Canada formed
10 07 1867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley
15 07 1867 SF Merchant's Exchange opens
21 07 1867 City Gardens on Folsom opens
25 07 1867 Das Kapital by Karl Marx was published
14 09 1867 Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew the "Gibson Girl"
04 11 1867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
07 11 1867 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium
25 11 1867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
25 11 1867 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes "On the Beautiful Blue Danube"
1868 14th amendment prohibits voting discrimination, among other things
1868 House impeaches President Johnson. Senate acquits him by one vote
08 01 1868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
10 02 1868 William Allen White born
16 02 1868 the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City
23 02 1868 W. E. B. DuBois, the Black educator, was born
16 03 1868 Maksim Gorky, Russian novelist, was born
31 03 1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard the steamship "China"
06 04 1868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife
18 04 1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Anis formed
12 05 1868 Russians occupy Samarkand
22 05 1868 The "Great Train Robbery" took place in Indiana
23 05 1868 Kit Carson, frontiersman, died
26 05 1868 President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
31 05 1868 1st recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris
09 06 1868 1st meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California
23 06 1868 Typewriter patented
28 07 1868 the fourteenth amendment, civil rights, was proclaimed in effect
09 09 1868 Mary Hunter Austin, American author and feminist, was born
21 10 1868 Severe earthquake at 7:53AM
13 11 1868 Gioacchino Rossini, opera composer, died
24 11 1868 Scott Joplin, entertainer
26 11 1868 1st baseball game played in enclosed field at 25th & Folsom
05 12 1868 A bicycle riding school opens in New York
20 12 1868 Harvey Firestone, rubber manufacturer, was born
1869 Cleveland's first professional baseball team was The Forest City's
1869 Suez Canal completed
1869 Transcontinental railroad completed; Ogden, UT wins the golden spike
18 01 1869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco
04 02 1869 William Dudley ("Big Bill") Haywood, American labor leader who founded I.W.W., was born
21 03 1869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame
21 03 1869 Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer and impresario, was born in Chicago
18 04 1869 1st International Cricket Match, held in SF, won by Californian
30 04 1869 the Hawaiian YMCA organized
01 05 1869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris
10 05 1869 The Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah. The Transcontinential railroad was completed
08 06 1869 Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin
08 06 1869 Inventor Ives W. McGaffey received a patent for a vacuum cleaner
10 06 1869 The 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with the 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
29 07 1869 Booth Tarkington, novelist
23 08 1869 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in San Francisco, from Boston, after a 16-day rail trip
23 08 1869 James "Sunny Jim" Rolph, Mayor (1912-1931), Muni backer
24 08 1869 the Waffle Iron was invented
06 09 1869 the 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco
24 09 1869 Black Friday: Thousands of business are ruined after Jay Gould and James Fisk try to corner the Gold market
01 10 1869 1st postcards issued in Vienna
02 10 1869 Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India
08 10 1869 J. Frank Duryea, with his brother, invented 1st auto built & operated in the US
16 10 1869 a hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
18 10 1869 the United States take possession of Alaska
21 10 1869 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
06 11 1869 the first for intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6 - Princeton 4)
15 11 1869 Free Postal Delivery forly inaugurated
16 11 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal
10 12 1869 Women allowed to vote in Wyoming Territory
30 12 1869 Stephen Leacock, economist and humourist, was born
31 12 1869 Henri Matisse, painter, was born
1870 "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", in a nuclear submarine
1870 15th Amendment gives blacks the right to vote
1870 John D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil Company, in Cleveland, OH
09 01 1870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge
02 02 1870 Cardiff Giant revealed as a hoax
10 02 1870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time)
05 03 1870 railway between Bombay and Calcutta was completed
14 03 1870 Legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
30 03 1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
30 03 1870 The 15th amendment, black suffrage, proclaimed
02 04 1870 The Calcutta and Bombay Railroad opened for through traffic
13 04 1870 The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York
22 04 1870 Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian Revolutionary leader, was born
06 05 1870 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America
12 05 1870 Manitoba becomes a Canadian Province
09 06 1870 Charles Dickens, author, died near Rochester, Kent
17 06 1870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal
22 06 1870 Congress created the Department of Justice
08 08 1870 the first America's Cup race
24 09 1870 Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light
02 10 1870 Rome and its provinces are forly made part of Italy and Rome was declared the capital
12 10 1870 Robert E. Lee died
01 11 1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations
06 12 1870 William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies
18 12 1870 Saki, the British short-story writer was born in Burma
1871 Dr. B. F. Goodrich opens rubber factory in Akron, OH
17 01 1871 1st Cable Car was patented by Andrew S. Hallidie
31 01 1871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large numbers that they actually darken the sky
05 03 1871 Rosa Luxembourg, "Red Rosa", German socialist leader, was born
28 03 1871 San Francisco Art Association holds opening reception at 430 Pine
29 03 1871 Royal Albert Hall in London was opened by Queen Victoria
10 04 1871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park officially accepted
23 04 1871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up
11 05 1871 Sir John Herschel, astronomer, died in London
29 06 1871 Trade unions legalized in England by an act of Parliament
10 07 1871 Marcel Proust, French author, was born
29 07 1871 Siberian peasant, Grigori Rasputin, powerful influence on Nicolas II, was born
19 08 1871 Orville Wright, pioneer aviator, born
19 09 1871 President Lincoln's body was removed to go to its permanent resting place in Springfield, Illinois
01 10 1871 Troops dispatched to arrest Brigham Young for lewdly cohabitating with 16 young women
08 10 1871 Great Chicago Fire
08 10 1871 Mrs. O'Leary's cow blamed for Chicago fire, finished 11th
08 10 1871 The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago
18 10 1871 Charles Babbage, inventor, died
27 10 1871 New York City's Boss Tweed arrested on fraud charges
10 11 1871 Henry Stanley finds David Livingstone at Ujiji, Zanzibar and says "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" To which Livingstone replies, "Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you."
13 12 1871 Russell Porter born
19 12 1871 Corrugated paper patented
23 12 1871 First Gilbert & Sullivan collaboration, Thespis
1872 Coolidge, 30th President born
1872 Susan B. Anthony leads protest for women at polling place
1872 Yellowstone National Park created; our first of many (but too few)
16 01 1872 The first run of the Orient Express
20 01 1872 California Stock Exchange Board organized
31 01 1872 Zane Gray, American West novelist
08 02 1872 The Viceroy of India was murdered
01 03 1872 The world's first national park was established, when Pres. Ulysses S. Grant signed an act of Congress designating more than 2 million acres (800,000 hectares), mostly in Wyoming, as Yellowstone National Park
02 04 1872 Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of morse code, died
10 04 1872 Gov Morton of Nebraska suggests a holiday for planting trees to be known as Arbor Day
20 04 1872 Bar Association of San Francisco organized
16 05 1872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
17 05 1872 Bohemian Club incorporated
18 05 1872 Bertrand Russell the philosopher was born
12 06 1872 the first railroad opens in Japan
18 06 1872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
04 07 1872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929)
18 07 1872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot
23 08 1872 1st Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco with a cargo of tea
05 11 1872 Susan B. Anthony was fined 100 for trying to vote in the presidential election
07 11 1872 The Mary Celeste sets sail for Genoa. She will be found 4
weeks later abandoned at sea, the whereabouts of her crew unknown 09 11
1872 Fire destroyed nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston
1873 Bellevue Hospital in NYC starts first school of nursing
28 01 1873 Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine), French novelist, was born
20 02 1873 University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)
25 02 1873 Enrico Caruso, singer
03 03 1873 A president's salary was raised from 25000 to 50000 per yeare
01 05 1873 David Livingstone, the explorer, died
09 05 1873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen
23 05 1873 Postal Cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time
02 06 1873 Ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad
18 06 1873 Susan B. Anthony, was fined 100 for trying to vote in 1872 presidental election
04 07 1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
21 07 1873 The first train robbery was carried out by Jesse and Frank James at Adair Iowa. They got 3000
01 08 1873 First successful test of a cable car. It was designed by Andrew S. Hallidie for San Francisco
02 08 1873 1st trial run of an SF cable car, on Clay Street between Kearny and Jones, downhill all the way, at 4AM
26 08 1873 Lee De Forest, invented the Audion vacuum tube (radio tube)
06 09 1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
17 09 1873 Jay Cooke & Co. fails, causing a securities panic
08 10 1873 Ejnar Hertzsprung born
18 10 1873 the Ivy League establishes rules for college football
01 11 1873 Barbed wire was first made allowing the ranges to be fenced
12 11 1873 Bay District Race Track opens
16 11 1873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues in band music
27 11 1873 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed in NW Massachusetts
07 12 1873 Willa Cather, a novelist, was born in Virginia
1874 Hoover, 31st President, born; died 1964
16 01 1874 Robert Service, Canadian author, was born
25 01 1874 Somerset Maugham, poet
25 01 1874 W. Somerset Maugham, author, born
03 02 1874 Gertrude Stein, poet, novelist, was born
17 02 1874 Thomas J. Watson, Sr. born, founder of IBM (THINK)
21 02 1874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
24 03 1874 Harry Houdini, magician and escape artist, was born
26 03 1874 Robert Frost, American poet, was born
06 04 1874 Harry Houdini, escape artist, magician, exposer of fakes of supernatural phenomena, was born
19 04 1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
25 04 1874 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible
25 04 1874 Guglielmo Marconi, radio pioneer born
03 05 1874 Francois Coty, perfumemaker
29 05 1874 Gilbert Keith Chesterton, journalist and writer, was born
08 06 1874 Cochise, Apache chief, died
10 08 1874 Herbert Hoover, 31st President (1929-1933)
21 09 1874 Gustav Holst, composer of 'The Planets'
20 10 1874 Charles Ives, composer
07 11 1874 an elephant was first used to represent the Republican party in a cartoon by Thomas Nast
24 11 1874 patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire
30 11 1874 Winston Churchill, statesman, born in Blenheim Palace
1875 Gold discovered in the Sioux holy grounds, the Black Hills of SD
03 03 1875 a 20-cent coin was authorized by Congress (It only lasted
3 years)
07 03 1875 Maurice Ravel, the composer, was born in France
02 04 1875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company
17 05 1875 First Kentucky Derby held
17 05 1875 First running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchhill Downs
17 05 1875 The first Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs
03 06 1875 Georges Bizet, composer of Carmen and The Pearl Fishers, died
05 06 1875 for opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange
06 06 1875 Thomas Mann, American author, was born
19 06 1875 for opening of US Marine Hospital at the Presidio
23 07 1875 Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine, died
26 07 1875 Carl Jung, the psychologist, was born
04 08 1875 Hans Christian Andersen died
25 08 1875 Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel, travelling from Dover to Calais in 22 hours
01 09 1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs was born
09 09 1875 Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated
05 10 1875 Palace Hotel on Market Street opens
07 11 1875 Verney Cameron was 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from sea to sea
1876 Custer makes his way into the history books at Little Big Horn in Montana
1876 Does the name "Alexander Graham" ring a Bell? Telephone invented
1876 Internal combustion engine invented by N. A. Otto (pronounced "auto")
1876 Liberty statue presented by France, construction requires ten years
12 01 1876 Jack London, author and adventurer, born
02 02 1876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams
14 02 1876 Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. The supreme court will later rule that Bell was the rightful inventor
17 02 1876 Sardines were 1st canned, in Eastport, Maine
10 03 1876 the 1st telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell
11 04 1876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized
08 06 1876 George Sand (Amantine Dupin), novelist, died in France
14 06 1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co. gets its franchise
17 06 1876 Cra Horse defeats General Crook
25 06 1876 Custer's Last Stand at the Little Big Horn
04 07 1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco
01 08 1876 Colorado becomes the 38th state
02 08 1876 "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed in Deadwood, S.D
07 08 1876 Mata Hari, the spy, was born
13 08 1876 Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified
06 09 1876 Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to San Francisco completed
09 10 1876 First two-way telephone conversation
26 11 1876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment
29 11 1876 Nellie Taylor Ross, the first woman governor (Wyoming) and first woman director of the US Mint was born
06 12 1876 City of Anaheim incorporated for a second time
29 12 1876 Pablo Casals, Spanish Cellist, was born
1877 Cra Horse died in a Nebraska prison from stab wounds
10 01 1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic precipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers
09 02 1877 U.S. Weather Service was founded
20 02 1877 Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City was opened
12 04 1877 The catcher's mask was first used in a baseball game
19 04 1877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine
30 04 1877 Alice B. Toklas, American author, was born
26 05 1877 Isadora Duncan
18 06 1877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his "I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster
08 07 1877 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T)
23 07 1877 first telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii was completed
02 08 1877 San Francisco Public Library opens with 5000 volumes
11 08 1877 Martian moon Deimos discovered by Asaph Hall
15 08 1877 Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), soldier, archaeologist, adventurer, and author, was born in Wales
17 08 1877 Martian moon Phobos discovered by Asaph Hall
29 08 1877 Brigham Young, 2nd president of the Morman Church, died in Utah
05 09 1877 Cra Horse, the Sioux Indian chief, died
11 09 1877 James Jeans born
25 10 1877 Henry Norris Russell born
07 11 1877 First state penitentiary for women was opened
21 11 1877 Thomas Edison announced the invention of a phonograph, which he dubbed a "talking machine."
06 12 1877 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison
15 12 1877 Patent granted to Mr. Edison for the phonograph
1878 First electric street lighting anywhere was on Cleveland Public Square
06 01 1878 Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer, was born in Illinois
28 01 1878 First commercial telephone exchange initiated, in New York City
28 01 1878 First commercial telephone exchange was at New Haven, CT
28 01 1878 George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
05 02 1878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker
17 02 1878 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones
21 02 1878 First Telephone book was issued, in New Haven, Conn
26 03 1878 Hastings College of Law founded
28 03 1878 First electric lights installed in Westminster Palace
10 04 1878 California Street Cable Car Railroad Company starts service
04 05 1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at the Grand Opera House
21 05 1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aircraft builder (e.g. Curtiss Jennie) and inventor of the aileron, was born
04 06 1878 Turkey turns Cyprus over to the British
05 06 1878 Pancho Villa, robber and revolutionary, was born
15 06 1878 1st attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each taking one picture (done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the groundduring a gallop. Leland Stanford bet they didn't. He lost)
04 07 1878 George M. Cohan
20 07 1878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
01 09 1878 Miss Emma Nutt becomes the first women telephone operator in America. Until now, all operators were men
20 09 1878 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born
01 12 1878 First telephone installed in the White House
12 12 1878 last Labrador Duck killed
1879 Charles McGill was last felon publicly hanged on Cleveland Public Square
1879 John D. Rockefeller organizes the Standard Oil Trust
10 02 1879 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater)
14 02 1879 "La Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
23 02 1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first store in Utica, NY, where it was a failure. Moving to Lancaster, PA, improved sales
01 03 1879 Library of Hawaii founded
08 03 1879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
14 03 1879 Albert Einstein, physicist, born
09 04 1879 W.C. Fields, actor
30 04 1879 Sarah Hale, the author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb", died
31 05 1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
09 07 1879 Ottorino Respighi, composer of "Pines of Rome", was born
17 07 1879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
25 07 1879 Maxfield Parrish, American artist, was born
01 09 1879 Peace treaty signed with the Zulus by Britain
20 09 1879 the U.S. Grants come to San Francisco for an elaborate extended visit
20 10 1879 The reading room of the British Museum was first lighted with electricity
21 10 1879 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp
04 11 1879 Will Rogers, humorist, born
26 11 1879 Charles W. Goddard, the author of "The Perils of Pauline", was born
09 12 1879 Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator, was born
31 12 1879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
31 12 1879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
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