Articles about daily life across every continent and era, oldest first.
The Act of July 1, 1862, paid two railroads in bonds and land by the mile. On May 10, 1869, the rails met at Promontory Summit and a telegraph sent "DONE."
· 1869Three police shot at Stringybark Creek on October 26, 1878; a 56-page letter left at Jerilderie in 1879; Glenrowan in June 1880; the gallows, November 11.
· 1880Rinderpest reached Africa with the Italian invasion of Eritrea in 1889, killed 90 to 95 percent of cattle by 1896, and was declared eradicated worldwide in 2011.
· 1889The South Fork Dam failed on May 31, 1889. A county commission blamed its owners, a club of Pittsburgh industrialists, but every suit against the club failed.
· 1889A 50-year tobacco monopoly granted on March 8, 1890 for 15,000 pounds a year; a fatwa ended it by January 1892, and the bill was 500,000 pounds.
· 1891Thousands camped in Tehran's British legation garden in July 1906 until the shah decreed an assembly. That Majles was shelled in 1908 and shut in 1911.
· 1906Rifleman William Eve's diary says soldiers 'played football' on December 25, 1914; the National Archives' review of unit war diaries records no such match.
· 1914A molasses tank in Boston's North End burst on January 15, 1919, killing 21. In 1925 auditor Hugh W. Ogden held its owner responsible, not anarchists.
· 1919Gandhi's letter of March 2, 1930 told Lord Irwin he would 'disregard the provisions of the salt laws.' The march left March 12; a pact came in March 1931.
· 1930A Chisso doctor reported an unknown nervous disease on May 1, 1956. Japan named methylmercury from the plant in 1968; a mercury treaty followed in 2013.
· 1956Royal Assent on February 7, 1957. Section 5 named March 6 as the appointed day; from then the Gold Coast was Ghana, outside British responsibility.
· 1957Eleven detainees died at Hola Camp, Kenya, on March 3, 1959. Nairobi blamed a water cart; the inquest found violence. Hansard 1959 to files opened in 2014.
· 1959April 1, 1960: the Security Council deplored, 9 to 0 with France and Britain abstaining, policies behind the Sharpeville shooting of March 21 (69 dead).
· 1960The World Bank lent Japanese National Railways $80 million on May 2, 1961 for the New Tokaido Line. It opened October 1, 1964 at nearly double the budget.
· 1964Tip No 7 fell on Aberfan on October 21, 1966. A Tribunal blamed the National Coal Board; £150,000 of disaster-fund money paid for tip removal until 1997.
· 1966On May 27, 1967, 90.77% of Australian voters struck eight words from section 51 and all of section 127 of the Constitution; a second question failed.
· 1967OAPEC cut output 5 percent a month from October 17, 1973, and embargoed the United States. A barrel went from $2.90 to $11.65; the ban ended in March 1974.
· 1973Papers count Bhopal's immediate dead at 2,000, 2,500 or 3,800; the 1989 settlement of US$470 million rested on 3,000; 15,310 death claims paid by 2003.
· 1984At 6:50 p.m. Günter Schabowski read a draft travel rule live and said it took effect 'sofort, unverzüglich.' By 11:30 p.m. Bornholmer Straße was open.
· 1989On June 3, 1992 the High Court of Australia held six to one that Meriam native title to Mer survived annexation; terra nullius had no place in its law.
· 1992
