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Rutherford Hayes inaugurated
Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th president. -
U.S. population tops 50,000,000, including 6,000,000 foreign-born
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Thomas A. Edison patents incandescent light bulb
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Booker T. Washington founds the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to promote trade education for African-Americans
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James A. Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th president.
He dies later from complications from the shot. -
He is shot by Charles Guiteau in Washington, DC.
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United States divided into time zones
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Brooklyn Bridge opens in New York
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Grover Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd president.
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Statue of Liberty dedicated in New York
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Flood kills thousands in Johnstown, PA.
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Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as twenty-third President of the U.S.
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Wyoming becomes the 44th state and the first one admitted to the Union with women's suffrage
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John Philip Sousa forms his band, after having led the U.S. Marine Corps Band
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Grover Cleveland is inaugurated a second time, as the 24th president.
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A large tornado destroys the town of Sherman, Texas. This is part of a two-week sequence of tornadoes in nine states thought to be the worst in U.S. history.
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William McKinley inaugurated as twenty-fifth President of the U.S.
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The USS Maine is sunk in Havana Harbor, Cuba, one of the events that led to the Spanish-American War(1898-1899).