1831

James Garfield (Politician, former U.S. President, assassinated in 1881)

Anna Hallowell (Abolitionist, established first free kindergarten for poor children)

Clement Studebaker (Automobile Pioneer)

George Pullman (Inventor of the railway sleeping car)

Naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. (Darwin’s discoveries during the voyage helped form the basis of

The Christmas Uprising, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt and the Baptist War, began and lasted 11 days. It was

Former slave Nat Turner, who had led a violent insurrection, was executed in Jerusalem, Virginia.

Former slave Nat Turner led a violent insurrection against slavery in Virginia. (He was later executed.)

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