| July 4th 1874 | | Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
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| July 4th 1875 | | White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
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| July 4th 1876 | | Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
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| July 4th 1876 | | 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
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| July 4th 1879 | | Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
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| July 4th 1879 | | Battle at Rorkes Drift: Britain ends attack on Zulus
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| July 4th 1881 | | Booker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
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| July 4th 1882 | | Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
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| July 4th 1883 | | Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
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| July 4th 1884 | | 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
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| July 4th 1884 | | Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
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| July 4th 1886 | | 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
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| July 4th 1888 | | 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz
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| July 4th 1889 | | Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
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| July 4th 1892 | | James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
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