Post a coin and tell us what happened in that year

Today? lol, late...like 6pm....j/k I posted above.

Me too!

 

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You're living in Buffalo? Poor fellow........I've got a house up there that I'd like to get rid of.

 

Shoot out at the O.K. Corral Oct. 26, 1881.

 

Every time I watch the Cleveland Browns play!!

 

1993

my son was born!

 

1913: Woodrow Wilson becomes President. Federal Reserve System is established.

 

Im lost, original Browns....Ravens, or new Browns fan?

 

The year that the "coin of the century" was made, the 2015 reverse proof dime.

 

1909: The last time the Chicago Cubs could start their season as defending World Series Champions!!!

BTW, I'm a Chicago White Sox Fan!

 

1857. Someone was playing around with some dies at the US Mint.

 

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

1st U.S. black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (New York City), begins publishing.

Slavery is abolished in NY,

but a week later Creek-indians lose all their property in US.

Despite the date depicted on the coin this was actually minted in 1828, so...

1st American Indian newspaper in U.S., "Cherokee Phoenix," is published.

Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder.

Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US.

South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws.

 

1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio

RCA and GE install three test television sets in homes in Schenectady, New York allowing American inventor E.F.W. Alexanderson to demonstrate the first home television receiver which delivered a poor and unsteady 1.5 square inch picture

Mickey Mouse made his 1st ever appearance in silent film "Plane Crazy"

Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"

- Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It is described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.

 

First Boston marathon; patriotic march song "Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Phillip Sousa is performed for the first time; the Klondike gold rush begins; Oldsmobile founded; Moe Howard was born (he died in 1975); and for you coin collector types, "the ANA was inactive and the entire coin hobby slow" from Bowers Guide Book of Morgan Silver Dollars.

 

Greatest thing since...sliced bread.

 

Cool thread idea mic!

 

That thought crossed my mind.......

 

You forgot to add the Coinage Act of 1857 (Feb. 21) Larry........

 

I was born

 

Very nice Mercury!