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October 6 – American Library Association founded in Philadelphia. November 7 The 1876 presidential election ends indecisively with 184 Electoral College votes for Samuel J. Tilden, 165 for Rutherford B. Hayes, and 20 in dispute. The new president (Hayes) is not decided until 1877.
September 10 – John Ireland Howe, American inventor (b. 1793) September 27 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate Civil War general (b. 1817) October 1 – James Lick, American land baron (b. 1796) November 16 – Karl Ernst von Baer, Estonian-German scientist, explorer (b. 1792) November 18 – Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, French painter (b. 1807)
Bliss and Tragedy: The Ashtabula Railway-Bridge Accident of 1876 and the Loss of P.P. Bliss. Birmingham, Ala.: Sherman Oak Books. ISBN 9781931985093. Fess, Simeon David (1937). Ohio: A Four-Volume Reference Library on the History of a Great State. Volume 3: Historical Gazetteer of Ohio. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co. OCLC 418516. Dutka, Alan F ...
Built as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, it is the only major structure from that exhibition to survive. It subsequently housed the Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia Museum of Art). Since October 18, 2008, the Hall has served as home to the Please Touch Museum.
1876 in the United States by state or territory (47 C) 1876 disestablishments in the United States (14 C, 4 P) 1876 establishments in the United States (48 C, 16 P)
The Great Sanitary Fair in 1864 was the model for the Centennial Exposition; it raised $1,046,859 for medicine and bandages during the American Civil War. Joseph Roswell Hawley, president of the U.S. Centennial Commission A stock certificate for five $10 shares issued by the Centennial Board of Finance
The museum opened in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology.It was one of the last structures designed by the renowned architectural firm McKim Mead & White.In 1980, the museum was renamed the National Museum of American History to represent its mission of the collection, care, study, and interpretation of objects that reflect the experience of the American people.
The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877 in an alliance of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States. The cause of the war was the desire of the US government to obtain ownership of the Black Hills.