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Custer's Last Stand - Battle of Little Bighorn
George Armstrong Custer and the 265 men under his command lost their lives in the Battle of Little Big Horn. -
Invention of phonograph
August 12, 1877 is the date popularly given for Thomas Edison's completion of the model for the first phonograph. -
Assassination of President James Garfield
The assassination of James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, began when he was shot at 9:30 am on July 2, 1881. less than four months into his term as President, and ended in his death 79 days later on September 19, 1881. He was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. -
The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is dedicated by Grover Cleveland on October 28th, 1886. The Statue was built in France and and funded by the French people and was shipped in 1885 to New York and placed onto Liberty Island in New York Harbor -
Great blizzard of 1888
one of the worst blizzards in American history strikes the Northeast, killing more than 400 people and dumping as much as 55 inches of snow in some areas. New York City ground to a near halt in the face of massive snow drifts and powerful winds from the storm. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
On December 29, the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers under Big Foot, a Lakota Sioux chief, near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded they surrender their weapons. As that was happening a fight broke out and a brutal massacre followed, in which it’s estimated 150 Indians were killed -
Chicago World’s fair opening day
Held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival to the New World in 1492.The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented the long voyage Columbus took to the New World. -
United States formally declares war on Spain
The Monroe Doctrine, which since 1823 had viewed any European intervention in the Americas as a threat to U.S. security, coupled with the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor, precipitated U.S. engagement.
