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1886 was a big year for Grover Cleveland, who dedicated the Statue of Liberty and became the first president to marry in the White House. A labor demonstration at Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned deadly after a bomb exploded and police fired on protesters, while in Seattle, anti-Chinese mobs dragged residents from their Chinatown homes. Coca-Cola went on sale for the first time at an Atlanta pharmacy, and in Germany, rival inventors Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler filed the first patent applications for gasoline-powered automobiles.
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Apache chief Geronimo (1829 - 1909) poses for a portrait not long after his final capture and placement at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1886. Geronimo's life was spent trying to fight off Mexican and American efforts to remove his people from their ancestral lands in Arizona. After years of bitter struggle, he was finally forced to accept surrender. He spent his remaining years on a reservation. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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FRANCE - CIRCA 1900: Folies-Bergere: Tous les Soirs (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images)
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