1847

Bram Stoker (Writer, Author of Dracula)

Paul (Ludwig Hans Anton Von Beneckendorff und) von Hindenburg (German General, President)

Jesse James (Outlaw)

James Anthony Bailey (Circus ringmaster and showman, Barnum and Bailey)

Joseph Pulitzer (American Newspaperman)

Alexander Graham Bell (Inventor of the telephone)

Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor)

Maria Mitchell became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

U.S. forces under General Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City.

Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrived at Salt Lake City, Utah.

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