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Rutherford B. Hayes was sworn in as the 19th president of the United States, and William A. Wheeler sworn in as the 19th vice president of the United States. Romualdo Pacheco of California takes office as the first Latino to serve in the United States Congress. March 13 – Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs.
The United States and allies enforce a no-fly zone over Iraq south of the 32nd parallel north, August 27, 1992 – September 4, 1996; Bill Clinton becomes the 42nd president of the United States on January 20, 1993; The United States contributes troops for United Nations peacekeeping in Macedonia, July 9, 1993 – [clarification needed]
March 4, 1877 – After only two days as president-elect and vice president-elect, Hayes becomes the 19th president and Wheeler becomes the 19th vice president; 1877 – Reconstruction ends; 1877 – Nez Perce War; 1878 – Bland–Allison Act; 1878 – Morgan silver dollars first minted; 1879 – Thomas Edison creates first commercially viable ...
A History of the United States since the Civil War. Volume V, 1888–1901 (Macmillan, 1937). 791pp; comprehensive old-fashioned political history; Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850: 1877–1896 (1919) online complete; old, factual and heavily political, by winner of Pulitzer Prize; Shannon, Fred A.
2021 – January 6 United States Capitol attack; 2021 – Daunte Wright protests, April 11 – February 18, 2022; 2021 – May 9 – June 2021, amid the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, the United States saw a rise in antisemitism, Anti-Arab racism and violence, as both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters took to the streets of major U.S ...
This is a list of conflicts in the United States. Conflicts are arranged chronologically from the late modern period to contemporary history . This list includes (but is not limited to) the following: Indian wars , skirmishes , wars of independence , liberation wars , colonial wars , undeclared wars , proxy wars , territorial disputes , and ...
March 2 – Compromise of 1877: The 1876 United States presidential election is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote on November 7, 1876. March 4. Emile Berliner patents the microphone in the United States. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake debuts in Moscow.
1926 – NBC founded as the U.S.'s first major broadcast network; 1926 – United States intervenes in Nicaragua; 1926 – Opportunity Magazine publishes Langston Hughes' The Weary Blues; 1926 – The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is published.