The American Museum of Natural History is founded in New York (Apr 6), the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America is completed (May 10), Sainsbury’s first store opens in London (May 22), celluloid is patented (Jun 15), the first Estonian Song Festival takes place (Jun 30), the Suez Canal is inaugurated (Nov 17), Tolstoy’s War and Peace is published (Dec), Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri (Dec7), DNA is discovered, Japan is on its way to a fully centralized government, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins – and all these fine people were born: Continue reading “Data for 1869”
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