The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.

* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

The Central Pacific Railroad ( CPRR ) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that formed part of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " in North America.

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

Eventually, Chinese immigrants introduced keno to the West when they sailed across the Pacific Ocean to help build the First Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century, where the name was Westernized into boc hop bu and puck-apu.

* May 10 is Golden Spike Day ( 1869 – Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad – Promontory Summit, Utah )

* 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah ( not Promontory Point, Utah ) with the golden spike.

* 1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.

For the First Transcontinental Railroad, the United States government solved this problem by making extensive grants of public land to the railway's builders.

However, unlike the case with the First Transcontinental, the eastern terminus of the proposed Canadian Pacific route was not in rich Nebraskan farmland, but deep within the Canadian Shield.

The bay's regional importance became paramount when the First Transcontinental Railroad reached its western terminus in Alameda on September 6, 1869.

Chinese labourers on railroad gangs involved in building the First Transcontinental Railroad first gave snake oil to Europeans with joint pain.

He contributed to the passage of the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, which authorized construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

* David Haward Bain, Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad ( 2000 )

* John Debo Galloway ; The First Transcontinental Railroad: Central Pacific, Union Pacific ( 1950 )

January 8 | Jan. 8: First Transcontinental Railroad | Transcontinental R. R.

** Ground is broken in Sacramento, California, on the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.

* June 4 – The Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California via the First Transcontinental Railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.

** President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Pacific Railway Acts, authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

* May 10 – The First Transcontinental Railroad in North America is completed at Promontory, Utah, by driving of the " golden spike ".

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

The linkage made these lines easier to protect and maintain than the original First Transcontinental Telegraph lines, which went over much of the original routes of the Mormon Trail and the Central Nevada Route through central Utah and Nevada.

of their first engagement at Falling Waters after Old Jack's First Brigade had destroyed all the rolling stock of the B & O Railroad.

10 of the 1864 amending Pacific Railroad Act ( 13 Statutes at Large, 356 ) additionally authorized the company to issue its own " First Mortgage Bonds " in total amounts up to ( but not exceeding ) that of the bonds issued by the United States.

* Dennis W. Hess, CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF DIELECTRIC AND METAL FILMSfree-download from Electronic Materials and Processing: Proceedings of the First Electronic Materials and Processing Congress held in conjunction with the 1988 World Materials Congress Chicago, Illinois, USA, 24-30 September 1988, Edited by Prabjit Singh ( Sponsored by the Electronic Materials and Processing Division of ASM INTERNATIONAL )

* 1930: First US diesel-power passenger car ( Cummins powered Packard ) built in Columbus, Indiana ( USA )

* First Regiment of Cavalry ( USA )

* First degree confluence visit posted to the website: in New Hampshire, USA by Alex Jarrett ( project founder ) and Peter Cline on February 20, 1996.

* 1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York.

* September 2002: First anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks are held throughout the world, particularly the USA.

Seattle University ( SU ) is a Jesuit Catholic university located in the First Hill neighbourhood and Squire Park portion of the Central District of Seattle, Washington, USA.

* First Lieutenant, USA – November 1841

First published in 1925, and now published jointly on the web by the Society of Dyers and Colourists ( United Kingdom ) and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists ( USA ), this index is recognized internationally as the authoritative reference on colorants.

** First scuba certification course in the USA is offered by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation.

First issues, in the USA, were auto-coupled and housed in the black ' Straight ' liners along with a 6-page lyric sheet illustrated by The Mascara Snake.

She currently plays the lead role on USA Network's Political Animals as Elaine Barrish, a divorced former First Lady and Governor of Illinois, as well as the current Secretary of State.

* Phidias as a First Name in USA

It was filmed entirely within the Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey, in the USA, which is widely referred to as " America's First Movie Studio ".

In March 2004, four Blackwater USA employees escorting food supplies and other equipment were attacked and killed in Fallujah, in a videotaped attack ; the killings and subsequent dismemberment were a cause for the First Battle of Fallujah.

First US Printing, Harmony Books, New York, NY, USA.

First world countries such as Australia, Canada and USA invest heavily in systematic airborne magnetic surveys of their respective continents and surrounding oceans, using airplanes such as the Shrike Commander.

The Salish are a linguistic and cultural grouping of First Nations originally from British Columbia, Canada and Washington, USA.

Many major credit card issuers, including Bank of America ( formerly MBNA Corporation ), Chase Card Services ( part of JPMorgan Chase & Co., formerly Bank One / First USA ), and Barclays Bank of Delaware ( formerly Juniper Bank ), are headquartered in Wilmington.

The previous Star Trek movie, First Contact, grossed $ 92, 027, 888 in the USA and $ 146, 027, 888 worldwide.

* Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Damascius ' Problems and Solutions Regarding First Principles, ( New York, 2010 ) ( OUP USA American Academy of Religion-Texts & Translation ).

Likewise, First Deputy Chairman Anastas Mikoyan of the USSR was praised in 1959 for an informal diplomatic tour of the USA that successfully relied more on charming the American public than bargaining with the White House to ease international tensions.

* 2008: First successful transplantation of near total area ( 80 %) of face, ( including palate, nose, cheeks, and eyelid by Maria Siemionow ( Cleveland, USA )