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The first transcontinental railroad was completed.
During the election of 1800 Jefferson and Burr were tied after the Electoral College completed the vote count. This occurred because there was no clear way of identifying the winner for the presidential vote and the winner of the vice president vote. This lead to the passage of the 12th Amendment in 1804.
I think Dwight Eisenhower was the first to be president of a major university, namely Columbia University, Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton when it was just starting to become a university but it is questionable that is was a major university when he was president of it.
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
One major event that occurred near China in 1995 was the testing of missiles near the Taiwan Strait. This was done to intimidate the elections on the island of Taiwan.