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The bar was founded in 2013 in its location on Water Street. It opened as a "cocktail emporium", evoking the drinking habits of 19th-century New Yorkers. The bar's name is a reference to the Dead Rabbits, an Irish American street gang active in Lower Manhattan in the 1830s to 1850s. -
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to KKK or Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group. -
John D. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870 with his partners, including his brother William and Henry Flagler, with the goal of achieving efficiency in the oil industry through vertical integration and ending wasteful competition. -
Alexander Graham Bell received his U.S. patent for the telephone on March 7, 1876, following the filing of his patent application on February 14, 1876. Just a few days later, on March 10, 1876, Bell made the first telephone call to his assistant, Thomas Watson, famously saying, "Mr. Watson, come here—I want to see you!". This invention revolutionized communication by allowing people to speak to one another over long distances. -
The Great Oklahoma Land Race, officially the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889, was the first of several land runs where the U.S. government opened formerly Indian Territory to non-Native American settlement -
Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892. Seventeen-year-old Annie Moore, from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot. -
Early in 1901, J. P. Morgan, the country's most powerful banker, merged Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Corporation with nine other steel companies to form the world's largest corporation. The United States Steel Corporation, usually known as U.S. Steel or simply Big Steel, was capitalized at $1.4 billion. -
Theodore Roosevelt's tenure as the 26th president of the United States began on September 14, 1901, and expired on March 4, 1909. Roosevelt, a Republican, took office upon the assassination of President William McKinley, under whom he had served as vice president, and secured a full term in the 1904 election. -
Ida Tarbell first published her influential articles exposing the Standard Oil Company's predatory business practices in McClure's Magazine in 1902 and 1903, with the full series compiled and published as a two-volume book, The History of the Standard Oil Company, in 1904. -
Based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, it was founded by Henry Ford on June 16, 1903. Ford Motor Company would go on to become one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world. -
The Sixteenth Amendment, which allows Congress to collect an income tax, was passed by Congress in 1909 and ratified by the states on February 3, 1913, formally adding it to the Constitution. -
Angel Island opened as a U.S. immigration processing and detention center on January 21, 1910, and operated until November 5, 1940, serving as the main port of entry for immigrants on the West Coast. -
The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state. -
The Empire State Building officially opened and was dedicated by President Herbert Hoover on May 1, 1931. The iconic skyscraper, built in a record 13 months, was illuminated for the first time that day through a button press from the White House. -
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, was published on May 17, 1900, by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago, though some sources incorrectly cite its publication date as May 17, 1899. This American fairy tale quickly became a success and is now a classic of children's literature, leading to thirteen further Oz books.