Farmworkers set fire to a barn housing a combine harvester that threatened to undermine their livelihood harvesting grain in the Livermore Valley. - 1869

Emma Goldman, women's rights activist and radical, born in Lithuania. She came to the U.S. at age 17 - 1869

Thanks to an army of thousands of Chinese and Irish immigrants, who laid 2,000 miles of track, the nation’s first transcontinental railway line was finished by the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines at Promontory Point, Utah – 1869