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1862

1862 • U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the U.S. Bureau of Agriculture (later renamed U.S. Department of Agriculture).

1878


Mar 8
Age: 16y
1878 The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.

1880


Age: 18y
1880 • In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.

1882


Jun
Age: 20y
1882 • The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road") runs its first trains over the entire system between Buffalo, New York, and Chicago. Nine days later the Seney Syndicate sells the road to William Henry Vanderbilt for US$7.2 million.

1895


Apr 4
Age: 33y
1895 • Anti-Japanese officials led by Tang Ching-sung in Taiwan declare independence from the Qing Dynasty, forming the short-lived Republic of Formosa.

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