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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is first published in America An estimated 2,000,000 copies or more have been sold in the U.S.
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
In the Seven Weeks' War, Austria is defeated by Prussia and Italy
The Ku Klux Klan begins in the law office of Thomas M. Jones in Pulaski, TN
Issuance of the nickel, a new five-cent coin, is authorized by Congress. It is minted of copper and nickel with no more than 25% nickel.
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1866
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The first tenement-house law in America is enacted in New York City
"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party," a slogan created by Charles Weller, a court reporter, is used to test the efficiency of the first practical typewriter, invented by his friend, Christopher Sholes
Nebraska is admitted as a state, the 37th to join the Union
The first elevated railroad in America begins operation in New York City
U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000
South African diamond field discovered
Japan ends 675-year shogun rule
Vol.1 of Marx's Das Kapital published
Richard Strauss composes Blue Danube
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1867
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Susan B. Anthony founds the suffragette newspaper The Revolution. Its motto: "The true Republic-men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."
Congress passes a law providing an eight-hour day for laborers and workmen employed by the government
The first office building to have an elevator installed is the Equitable Life Assurance Society building in New York City
The Fourteenth Amendment, which grants citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the U.S., notably slaves freed by the Civil War, is adopted
Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, is published.
Revolution in Spain Ñ Queen Isabella deposed, flees to France
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1868
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