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Mary Eliza Mahoney (First African-American registered nurse in the United States)
Mary Eliza Mahoney (First African-American registered nurse in the United States)
Wilhelm Röntgen (German physicist who discovered X-rays)
Texas was admitted as the 28th state of the Union.
The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Maryland.
The Knickerbocker Rules were adopted by the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York, codifying a set of regulations that laid the groundwork for modern
The U.S. Senate passed legislation overriding a presidential veto for the first time.
Florida became the 27th state in the United States.
Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Raven” was published under a pseudonym in the “New York Evening Mirror.”