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Harry Nelson Pillsbury
1872Dec, 5

Harry Nelson Pillsbury

Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player (d. 1906)
Harry Nelson Pillsbury (December 5, 1872 – June 17, 1906) was a leading American chess player. At the age of 22, he won one of the strongest tournaments of the time (the Hastings 1895 chess tournament), but his illness and early death prevented him from challenging for the World Chess Championship.

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    Railway air brake

    George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
  • 22Mar

    Gender equality

    Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
  • 22May

    Amnesty Act

    Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
  • 18Nov

    United States presidential election, 1872

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  • 9Dec

    P. B. S. Pinchback

    In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.