Each Day in History

1838

2-Sep

Queen Liliuokalani (Last Queen of Hawaii)

8-Jul

Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (inventor, rigid dirigibles)

10-May

John Wilkes Booth (Actor, Assassin of President Abraham Lincoln)

16-Feb

Henry Adams (Writer, Historian)

3-Sep

Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery disguised as a sailor.

28-Jun

Britain’s Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

17-May

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a multiracial gathering of abolitionists, the Anti- Slavery Convention of American Women was attacked, the meeting hall was burned down. The police

6-Jan

Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated his telegraph for the first time.

1-Jan

Frederick Douglas, abolitionist and founder of famed newspaper The North Star,escaped to freedom from slavery disguised as a sailor.

1838

2-Sep

8-Jul

10-May

16-Feb

3-Sep

28-Jun

17-May

6-Jan

1-Jan

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Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell