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1879
February 15 - Women attorneys are now allowed to practice in front of the Supreme Court.
February 21 - Frank Winfred Woolworth opens his first five-cent store in Utica, New York.
February 27 - Saccharin, the artificial sweetener, is discovered by Constantine Fahlberg at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
May 8 - George B. Selden applies for the first U.S. automobile patent.
May 9 - The first U.S. postage due stamps are issued.
October 21 - Thomas Edison invents a workable incandescent lamp in his Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratories.
November 1 - The first all-steel railroad bridge is built in Glasgow, Missouri.
November 4 - The cash register is patented by J. J. Ritty in Dayton, Ohio.