Each Day in History

1845

7-May

Mary Eliza Mahoney (First African-American registered nurse in the United States)

27-Mar

Wilhelm Röntgen (German physicist who discovered X-rays)

29-Dec

Texas was admitted as the 28th state of the Union.

10-Oct

The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Maryland.

23-Sep

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

3-Mar

The U.S. Senate passed legislation overriding a presidential veto for the first time.

3-Mar

Florida became the 27th state in the United States.

29-Jan

Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Raven” was published under a pseudonym in the “New York Evening Mirror.”

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Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

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