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Events relating to north america
The Nez Percé Indians are led by Chief Joseph in a war against the US army
A strike against wage cuts by Baltimore railway workers spreads until it becomes almost a national strike
The human voice is recorded for the first time when Thomas Edison recites 'Mary had a little lamb' into his newly patented phonograph
US author Joel Chandler Harris introduces Uncle Remus in a story in the Constitution
Mary Baker Eddy and others found the first Church of Christ, Scientist, in Lynn, Massachusetts
Thomas Edison develops a long-lasting carbon filament light bulb (traditionally 40 hours) and is able to light his Menlo Park laboratory with 30 bulbs
US author Lew Wallace publishes a historical novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Boston lawyer Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr publishes a legal study that becomes a classic text, The Common Law
In Washington Square Henry James tells the sad story of heiress Catherine Sloper
Joel Chandler Harris publishes Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, the first of many Uncle Remus volumes
P.T. Barnum and his main rival James Bailey merge their enterprises to form America's leading circus
US president James Garfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau at a Washington railway station, and dies two months later
Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady studies an American girl, Isabel Archer, in the unfamiliar context of Europe
Booker T. Washington, freed at the end of the Civil War, heads a college in the south, in Tuskegee, Alabama, to educate former slaves
On the death of James Garfield, he is succeeded as US president by vice-president Chester A. Arthur
The Chicago architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan set up a partnership
Jesse James allows into his home a new gang member, working secretly for the police, who shoots him in the back
Congress passes a Chinese Exclusion Act, in the USA's first retreat from the policy of welcoming all immigrants
Jumbo, the 'world's largest elephant', becomes the star attraction of Barnum and Bailey's touring circus
Harvard graduates J.A. Mitchell and E.S. Martin establish Life magazine as a new satirical weekly
The Supreme Court declares illegal the 1875 Civil Rights Act against segregation, thus enabling the southern states to pass racist laws
Joseph Pulitzer buys the New York World and builds circulation with sensational news and campaigns
Brooklyn Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, is opened between Brooklyn and lower Manhattan
Mark Twain's autobiographical book Life on the Mississippi details his own personal involvement with the great river
William Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, celebrates the world of the cowboy in his immensely successful Wild West Show
