Black citizens were given the right to vote in Canada.
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The Rapid Transit Railroad broke ground on a new underground subway to link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Carolyn & Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy discovered the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
Five hundred and sixty people dressed as ghosts, to get a world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as ghosts.
The first telephone call was made between New York and Chicago.
The world's first international women's sporting event began in Monaco.
