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Events
Boone County
A brick structure replaces the original log building of the
Salem Predestinarian Baptist Church
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Kentucky
Macauley's Theatre opens in Louisville. It hosted all the top performers of the day, including Sarah Bernhardt, Lillie Langtry, and Buffalo Bill Cody.
U.S. & World
Blue jeans are invented.
The samurai class is abolished as the feudal era ends in Japan.
July 21 - Jesse James and the James-Younger gang complete their first successful train robbery in the West.
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Boone County
African American Tax List
, 1873.