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The Lakota and other Native American tribes defeated U.S. forces which was uncommon and thus a big victory for Natives.
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A bill is signed that allows female attorneys to argue in court cases.
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Albert Einstein is born in Germany and he eventually became a leading and revolutionary physics expert.
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The Panama Canal begins construction, a project which the United States would later (more than twenty years) buy
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Booker T. Washington, an influential advocate of African American rights, opens Tuskegee Institute
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Polygamy, the act of having more than one wife or husband, is outlawed (in America)
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Brooklyn Bridge completed after many years of being built and it served as an important connection between the two cities it connected which were originally basically completely separate.
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Ulysses S. Grant, one of the two main leaders in the civil war, dies in New York (not in combat obviously)