May 10

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

 Also on this date: U.S. & Canadian workers form Western Labor Union. Federal bankruptcy judge permits United Airlines to legally abandon responsibility for worker pensions.

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