Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass and his friend, white politician James N. Buffum, boarded an Eastern Railroad Company train in a first-class car going from Lynn
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (Judge)
Pierre Auguste Renoir (French Artist)
The slaves who seized the Amistad in 1839 were freed by the Supreme Court. They had been defended by former President John Quincy Adams.
The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue was published.
President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, one month after his inauguration.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Amistad slaves were free.
