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Events and People Who Made History in the Year 1869 AD
January
January 13: Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
January 13: National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
January 18: Elegant California Theater opens in San Francisco
January 20: Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before Congress
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February
February 2: James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade
February 3: Booth theater at 23rd and 6th opens in New York City (Romeo and Juliet)
February 6: Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
February 15: Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
February 19: U.S. Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized
February 20: Tennessee Governor W. C. Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
February 23: Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
February 26: 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
February 26: Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic," premieres
February 27: John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
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March
March 1: Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time
March 3: University of South Carolina opens to all races
March 4: Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president
March 13: Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
March 15: Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7
March 15: Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
March 16: Hiram R. Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate
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April
April 6: 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented
April 8: American Museum of Natural History opens (New York City)
April 9: Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada
April 10: Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
April 12: North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law
April 13: Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
April 17: 1st pro baseball games-Cincinnati Reds 24, Cincinnati amateurs 15
April 18: 1st international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian
April 30: Hawaiian YMCA organized
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May
May 1: Folies Bergere opens in Paris
May 10: Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinental RR
May 15: National Woman Suffrage Association forms
May 16: Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
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June
June 1: Voting machine patented by Thomas A. Edison
June 2: Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game, vs Cincinnati Red Stockings
June 5: 3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04
June 8: Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner
June 9: Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer, Philadelphia
June 10: 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
June 15: Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, New York
June 15: Mike McCoole (U.S.) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout
June 28: Amsterdam typographer strike
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July
July 1: Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
July 1: U.S. Mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
July 6: Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr. J H Harris, defeated
July 9: Concord pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented
July 15: Margarine is patents by Hippolye Mega-Mouries for use by French Navy
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August
August 1: 1st voyage down Colorado River
August 10: O. B. Brown patents moving picture projector
August 17: 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)
August 23: 1st carload of freight (boots and shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
August 24: Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron
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September
September 6: 1st westbound train arrives in SF
September 6: Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
September 10: Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
September 13: Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to control U.S. gold market
September 22: Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold," premieres in Munich
September 24: Black Friday; Wall St. panic after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner gold
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October
October 1: 1st postcards are issued (Vienna)
October 6: John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer," premieres
October 16: Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing
October 18: Henrik Ibsen's "De Unges Forbund," premieres in Christiania (Oslo)
October 21: 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
October 26: 1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, New York)
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November
November 1: Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
November 3: Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms
November 6: 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
November 15: Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
November 17: Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen)
November 17: Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean and Red seas
November 24: American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)
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December
December 8: 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
December 9: Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
December 10: Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (U.S. 1st)
December 18: Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game
December 28: William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
December 30: Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms
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