1851

14-Aug

John Henry “Doc” Holliday (Gambler, gunfighter, dentist, friend of Wyatt Earp)

24-Dec

Fire at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroyed about 35,000 volumes.

14-Nov

Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” was first published in the United States.

9-Nov

Calvin Fairbank, an American abolitionist and Methodist minister from the state of New York, was abducted by marshals from Kentucky and took him to be

18-Sep

The first edition of the New York Daily Times, which later became the New York Times, was published.

2-Jun

Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.

29-May

In Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth gave a powerful speech at the Ohio Woman’s Rights Convention. The title of the speech was “Ain’t I a Woman”.

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Dianne Russell

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