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January–March. January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee kills 73 people. January 16 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, reforming the United States civil service with the aim to end the spoils system, becomes law. January 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New ...
1883 is an American Western drama television miniseries created by Taylor Sheridan that premiered on December 19, 2021, on Paramount+. The series stars Tim McGraw , Faith Hill , Sam Elliott , Isabel May , LaMonica Garrett , Marc Rissmann , Audie Rick, Eric Nelsen , and James Landry Hébert.
Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 [b] – November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as the 21st president of the United States from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican lawyer from New York who briefly served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield. Arthur assumed the presidency after Garfield's death on ...
"#1883 is a near-perfect stand-alone series," one fan wrote. "I sobbed watching the brutality, but also the journey of 18-yr-old Elsa Dutton's untamed spirit." #1883 was a beautiful standalone.
The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), were a group of five landmark cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments did not empower Congress to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals. The holding that the Thirteenth Amendment did not empower the federal government to ...
July–September. August 3 – The U.S. Congress passes the 1882 Immigration Act. August 5 – Standard Oil of New Jersey is established. September 4 – Thomas Edison starts the U.S.'s first commercial electrical power plant, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. [4] September 5 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in ...
The evolution of United States standard time zone boundaries from 1919 to 2024 in five-year increments. Plaque in Chicago marking the creation of the four time zones of the continental US in 1883 Colorized 1913 time zone map of the United States, showing boundaries very different from today Map of U.S. time zones during between April 2, 2006, and March 11, 2007.
November 25 – Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st vice president of the United States from March to November 1885 (born 1819) December 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (born 1821) December 21 – George S Patton, General (born 1885) December 13 – Benjamin Gratz Brown, politician (born 1826)