
1847
Jul 24
1847 • Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. |
1870
Age: 22y
residenceSt Louis Ward 10, St Louis, Missouri, United States ⇓ Age in 1870: 23 1 Source ⇓ |
1870 • It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant is just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human. |
1879
Dec 6
Age: 32y
1879 • Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time in Menlo Park, New Jersey. |