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Historical Events for the Year 1874. 16th February » Dollar coin (United States) or Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender. 21st February » The 'Oakland Tribune known as Oakland Daily Tribune' publishes its first edition. 28th February » One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury ...
Major Events. Jan 1 New York City annexes the Bronx. Jan 13 Battle between jobless and police in NYC leaves 100s injured. Jan 13 US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king. Jan 14 I. D. Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Mississippi legislature.
April 10, 1874 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska. May 9, 1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes. May 16, 1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
Apr 18 David Livingstone, African explorer, buried in Westminster Abbey. Apr 19 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire. Apr 27 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms. Mar 1874.
Mar 1, 2016 · They work as if sent to destroy’. Late one July morning in 1874, 12-year-old farm girl Lillie Marcks watched the sunlight dim and a peculiar darkness sweep over the Kansas sky. A whirring, rasping sound followed, and there appeared, as she later recalled, “a moving gray-green screen between the sun and earth.”.
- Chuck Lyons
January – March. January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx. January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time.
(16. May 1874) A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party. (7. November 1874) The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded. (12. September 1874) Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender. (16. February 1874)
