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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.
A tale of Arthur Burdett Frost dated 1881.. Comics in the United States originated in the early European works. In 1842, the work Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois by Rodolphe Töpffer was published under the title The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck in the U.S. [3] [4] This edition (a newspaper supplement titled Brother Jonathan Extra No. IX, September 14, 1842) [17] [18] was an unlicensed copy of ...
1876 was a leap year ... The first American edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of ... which will claim 30 million lives and become the 5th-worst famine in ...
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.
The 1876 presidential election was heavily contested, and saw the highest turnout of voting age population in American history, 81.8%. [3] [4] Democratic Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York won the Democratic nomination on the second ballot of the 1876 Democratic National Convention, defeating Indiana Governor Thomas A. Hendricks and a handful of other candidates.
The election had the highest voter turnout of the eligible voting-age population in American history, at 82.6%. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Tilden's 50.9% is the largest share of the popular vote received by a candidate who was not elected to the presidency , and was the only presidential election in U.S. history in which the losing candidate won a majority of ...
March 2 – In the Compromise of 1877, the U.S. presidential election, 1876 is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876. March 4
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