27-Feb
The first Mardi Gras was held with street dancing, elaborate costumes and other trappings typical of France’s Fat Tuesday celebration.
The first Mardi Gras was held with street dancing, elaborate costumes and other trappings typical of France’s Fat Tuesday celebration.
The first newspaper edited for and by blacks, “Freedom’s Journal,” was published in New York.
The first U.S. railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, was incorporated.