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March 7th, 1876
Alexander Graham Bell receives his patent for the telephone. -
March 5th, 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes Inaugural Address after being elected President. -
April 22nd, 1879
Thomas Edison patents the lightbulb. -
September 19th, 1881
President James Garfield is assassinated. -
May 6th 1882
Chinese Exclusion Act is initiated. -
May 4th, 1886
The Haymarket Riot in Chicago was between labour protesters and police officers. -
December 29th, 1890
The Wounded Knee Massacre was the slaughter of a hundred or more Lakota Indians. -
May 11th, 1894
The Pullman Strike was a widespread railroad strike that lasted until July 20th, 1894. -
April 21st, 1898
The Spanish American lasted until December 10th, 1898.