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| 1 | 1865 | - Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day.
- Andrew Johnson president of the USA 1865-1869. Andrew Johnson, vice president under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
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| 2 | 1866 | - Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
- Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
- J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
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| 3 | 1867 | - Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
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| 4 | 1868 | - George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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| 5 | 1869 | - Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 6 | 1872 | - A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 7 | 1873 | - Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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