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John Tyler takes office as the 10th president of the United States
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NYPD was founded
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James K. Polk takes office as the 11th president of the United States
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Zachary Taylor takes office as the 12th president of the United States
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Millard Fillmore takes office as the 13th president of the United States
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Cincinnati, Ohio established America's first paid fire station
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Franklin Pierce takes office as the 14th president of the United States
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James Buchanan takes office as the 15th president of the United States
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Abraham Lincoln takes office as the 16th president of the United States
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Andrew Johnson takes office as the 17th president of the United States
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Christopher Scholes invents the typewriter
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Ulysses S. Grant takes office as the 18th president of the United States
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Chicago Fire
While burning for 24 hours, the fire killed an estimated 300 citizens, while leaving around 100,000 people homless. It burned more than 3 square miles of the city, and caused $200 million dollars worth of damages. -
Street cars first introduced in San Francisco
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
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Rutherford B. Hayes takes office as the 19th president of the United States
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James A. Garfield takes office as the 20th president of the United States and is assassinated later that year
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Chester Alen Arthur takes office as the 21st president of the United States
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Grover Cleveland takes office as the 22nd president of the United States
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Scott Act passed
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Benjamin Harrison takes office as the 23rd president of the United States
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Ellis Island was opened
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Chinese Exclusion Act extended by 10 years
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Grover Cleveland re-elected and takes office as the 24th president of the United States
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Electric subways introduced in Boston
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William McKinley takes office as the 25th president of the United states
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New York State Tenement House Act
The Tenement House Act of 1901 outlawed dumbbell tenements. -
Theodore Roosevelt takes office as the 26th president of the United States
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Chinese immigration restricted indefinatly
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San Francisco earthquake
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Angel Island was opened
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World War 1 begins
