26-Jun
William Thomson (First Baron Kelvin, physicist, Kelvin Scale)
William Thomson (First Baron Kelvin, physicist, Kelvin Scale)
Ambrose Burnside (American soldier, politician, industrialist)
Stonewall Jackson (Civil War General)
The presidential election was turned over to the House of Representatives when a deadlock developed among John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and
The diaries of Lord Byron were burnt by six of the poet’s “friends” at the office of John Murray in London, England, sometimes described as
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony premiered in Vienna.
Simón Bolívar was named dictator by the Congress of Peru.