


San Diego’s first free public library opens. The Russ Public School building opens with grades one through eight. Sioux Indians defeat United States troops at Little Big Horn.ġ881 President James Garfield is fatally shot by a man who had been denied a federal job Vice President Chester Arthur succeeds him.ġ882 President Arthur signs a bill into law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to the U.S. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
