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The cable had been successfully laid, stretching nearly 2,000 miles across the Atlantic at a depth often of more than two miles.
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Established Standard Oil, which by the early 1880s controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines.
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John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.
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Johnson decided to rid himself of Stanton once and for all and appointed General Lorenzo Thomas, an individual far less favorable to the Congress than Grant, as secretary of war, and the House of Representatives initiated formal impeachment proceedings against the president.
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The amendment had been rejected by most Southern states but was ratified by the required three-fourths of the states.
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First time in American history, railways linked together east and west, the realization of a dream that began two decades earlier.
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Republicans wanted the 15th Amendment passed to obtain the vote of the freed slaves.
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Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention–the telephone.
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Tensions between federal troops and a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors had been rising since the discovery of gold on Native American lands.
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Edison made the electric light by choosing a filament that would be durable but inexpensive.
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Charles J. Guiteau Shot President James A. Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station.
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One of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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The Pendleton Act provided that Federal Government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that Government employees be selected through competitive exams.
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After 14 years and 27 deaths while being constructed, the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River is opened, connecting the great cities of New York and Brooklyn.
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A gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States.
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Chicago's first and the nation's most influential settlement house, was established by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr on the Near West Side.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.
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The Wounded Knee massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux.
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Ellis island opened as a federal immigration station, a purpose it served for more than 60 years.
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The Plessy decision set precedent that sererat facilities for blacks and whites were constittutional as long as they were equal.
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After a police officer was shot and wounded trying to halt the distribution of weapons to the Committee of Safety’s militia, the committee decided to put its coup into action.
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Charles Duryea and his brother Frank, built the Duryea Motor Wagon, a one-cylinder "Ladies Phaeton" considered the first successful gas-engine vehicle built in the U.S.
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The growing popular demand for U.S. intervention became an insistent chorus after the unexplained sinking in Havana harbour of the battleship USS Maine, which had been sent to protect U.S. citizens and property after anti-Spanish rioting in Havana.
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28-year-old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz fires two shots into President William McKinleys chest while McKinley was at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York.
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Marconi set up a specially designed wireless receiver in Newfoundland, Canada, using a coherer to conduct radio waves, and balloons to lift the antenna as high as possible to send the first radio signals across the Atlantic ocean.
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Bunau-Varilla negotiated the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903, which provided the United States with a 10-mile wide strip of land for the canal, a one-time $10 million payment to Panama, and an annual annuity of $250,000.
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Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina.
