1876: Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods company, manufacturing 1st official baseball,
tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football

1876: 1st player to hit for the cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)

1876: In New York, the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs in formed.

1875: Electric dental drill patented by George F Green (bow drills around 7000 BCE)

1874: Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 /doz

1874: Thomas Nast, in a Harpers Weekly cartoon, symbolizes the Republican party as an elephant.

1872: George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine (continuous flame)

1872: Yellowstone becomes America's first national park

1872: Susan B Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to cast a vote for US president.

1871: 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Bismarck & Kaiser Wilhelm I

1871: 1st cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service 2-years later)

1871: Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton NY

1871: Otto Von Bismark is appointed Chancelor of the German Empire unifying hundreds of separate
principalities.

1870: Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to run for US President (Equal-Rights party)

1870: Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion