1833

Alfred Nobel (philanthropist, invented dynamite)

Benjamin Harrison (Politician, former U.S. President)

Robert Green Ingersoll (Author, politician, agnostic)

Johannes Brahms (Composer)

Oberlin College in Ohio – the first truly coeducational school of higher learning in the United States – began holding classes.

Prudence Crandall, a white woman, was arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Connecticut.

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