185-181: Bush v. Gore

185: Samuel Colt receives a patent for his revolver

184: The Missouri Compromise becomes law: admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

183: 2000 Presidential Election ends in controversy with numerous lawsuits in the state of Florida and ending with a 5-4 Supreme Court decision. George Bush defeats Al Gore for the Presidency ft. FOX News Contributor and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove

182: President Grant signs the Ku Klux Klan Act empowering forces to combat the group

181: Thomas Edison announces the invention of the phonograph which he later demonstrates ft. Research Professor; Director and General Editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers, Paul Israel