1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is born. He served on the US Supreme Court justice from 1902-1932. 1884 –...
1737 – Thomas Paine is born. 1820 – King George III dies after years of mental illness. 1843 – William...
1302 – Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence. 1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born. 1832 – Lewis Carroll is...
1554 – São Paulo, Brazil is founded. 1759 – Scottish poet Robert Burns is born. 1776 – First national memorial...
1738 – Ethan Allen, future Revolutionary War hero and key founder of the Republic of Vermont is born. 1793 –...
1839 – Mary Elizabth Bowser is born. A former slave, Bowser served as an undercover agent for Ulysses S. Grant...
1225 – Saint Thomas Aquinas is born. 1813 – Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” is published. 1887 – Work begins...
1784 – In a letter dated January 26, 1784, Benjamin Franklin writes to his daughter Sarah (Sally) Bache expressing his...
1871 – Justina Laurena Carter Ford is born. Shortly after earning her medical degree from Hering Medical School in Chicago,...
1801 – John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 1869 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes the...
