1809

Kit Carson (Frontiersman)

Alfred Lord Tennyson (Poet)

Abraham Lincoln (former U.S. President)

Charles Darwin (Naturalist, author of “On the Origin of Species”)

Edgar Allan Poe (Author, “The Raven”)

Louis Braille (Created the Braille alphabet)

The French Senate granted a divorce decree to Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Josephine.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government is greater than that of any individual state.

Robert Fulton patented the steamboat.

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