Events in History
- Aug 28 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue
- Sep 13 English chemist Michael Faraday discovers the 'Faraday effect', the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light
- Nov 4 First nationally observed uniform election day in the United States, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
- Dec 2 US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West, a widely held belief termed "manifest destiny" by newspaper editor John O'Sullivan
- Dec 29 Texas admitted as 28th state of the Union
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Alexander III
Wilhelm Röntgen
Mary Ann Nichols
John ThompsonHistorical Marriages
- Jan 2 Explorer and medical missionary David Livingstone (31) weds Mary Moffat
- Sep 25 Confederate army Nathan Bedford Forrest (24) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter Mary Ann Montgomery (18) in Hernando, Mississippi
Andrew Jackson
Charles Grey
Elizabeth Fry
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