Oct 16 Joseph Saxton, a machine inspector at the US Mint, takes 1st daguerrotype photograph in US, of Central High School building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct 20 Margaret Fuller is appointed editor of new US Transcendental Magazine "The Dial"
Famous Birthdays
Oct 2 Hans Thoma, German painter, born in Bernau, Black Forest (d. 1924)
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