1873

9-Oct

Charles (Rudolph) Walgreen (Drug store chain owner)

9-May

Howard Carter (British archaeologist, found King Tutankhamun’s tomb)

7-Apr

John McGraw (Major League baseball coach)

2-Jan

Saint Therese of Lisieux (Carmelite Nun)

18-Oct

Representatives of Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers and Yale Universities drew up the first rules for intercollegiate football.

26-Aug

The first free kindergarten in the United States was started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.

14-Aug

Forest and Stream, a magazine dedicated to wildlife conservation, published its first issue. The journal helped launch the National Audubon Society. In 1930, it merged

1-Aug

Inventor Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tested a cable car he had designed for the city of San Francisco. The car, pulled along by an underground

21-Jul

The first train robbery west of the Mississippi was pulled off by Jesse James and his gang.

3-Mar

United States Congress enacted the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send an “Obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail.

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