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Alexander Graham Bell transmits a human voice over a telephone wire.
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Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated President.
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James A. Garfield is inaugurated President.
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President Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau and would later die of his wounds on September 19th. Chester A. Arthur would also be inaugurated President on September 19th.
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President Arthur signs the Chinese Exclusion Act into law which prohibits Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States.
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American railroads divide the U.S. into four time zones
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Grover Cleveland is inaugurated President.
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The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 allowed the government to regulate railroad prices in order to prevent monopolization.
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Railroad workers walk off the job at Camden Junction, Maryland, starting a national railroad strike.
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Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated President.
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About three hundred Lakota people are massacred by soldiers in the U.S. Army.
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Grover Cleveland is inaugurated President for the second time - the first and only time in American history that a President has served two non-consecutive terms.
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Utah renounces polygamy and is finally admitted into the Union after four decades of applying for statehood.
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William McKinley is inaugurated President.
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The Spanish-American War was a conflict between Spain and the U.S. over land in the Caribbean and Western Pacific. The war would end after the signing of the 1898 Treaty of Paris.
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President McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution which annexes Hawaii into the United States.