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The 1878 State of the Union address was delivered by the 19th president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, to the 45th United States Congress on December 2, 1878, in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Presiding over the joint session was Speaker of the House, Samuel J. Randall, and Vice President William A. Wheeler.
The Johns Hopkins University Press is established in Baltimore, Maryland, as the University Publication Agency, making it the oldest continuously operating university press in the United States. [6] The Remington No. 2 typewriter, the first with a shift key enabling production of lower as well as upper case characters, is introduced in the ...
June 18 – Posse Comitatus Act signed into law to limit the powers of the federal government of the United States in using the United States Army to enforce domestic policy within the U.S. July 12 – Yellow fever epidemic begins in New Orleans. It will eventually kill 4,500 people.
1878: First phone directory printed in Connecticut. Telegraph manager George Coy of New Haven, Connecticut, developed an exchange—the system that allows people to call each other—within a year ...
1878 elections in the United States by state (42 C) 1878 in American sports by state (9 C) A. 1878 in Alabama (2 C) 1878 in Arizona Territory (3 C) 1878 in Arkansas ...
1878 in the United States by state or territory (48 C) 1878 disestablishments in the United States (11 C, 1 P) 1878 establishments in the United States (48 C, 4 P)
Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145 (1878), was a Supreme Court of the United States case which held that religious duty was not a defense to a criminal indictment. [1] Reynolds was the first Supreme Court opinion to address the First Amendment's protection of religious liberties, impartial juries and the Confrontation Clauses of the Sixth ...
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Vision of Echard, United States [6] A Masque of Poets, an anonymous compilation edited by George Parsons Lathrop that included works by Emily Dickinson and John Townsend Trowbridge, among others