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The first professional baseball association, the National Association of Proffesional Baseball Players, is organized.
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The rapid settleent of the West, after railroads built there, helps make the American buffalo almost extinct.
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America gets its first public zoo, the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens.
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Alexnder Graham Bel invents the telephone.
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Thomas Edison invents the first practical incandescent electric light at Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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