1853

18-Apr

William Rufus De Vane King was the third vice president of the United States to die while in office. The president at that time was

26-Nov

Bat Masterson (Lawman)

4-Apr

Tad Lincoln (Youngest son of Abraham Lincoln)

30-Mar

Vincent Van Gogh (Painter)

16-Jan

Andre Michelin (Tire manufacturer)

30-Dec

The United States bought 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal that became known as the Gadsden Purchase, for the man who

25-Sep

Antoinette Brown became the first American woman ordained pastor of a Congregational Church in South Butler, New York.

21-Jul

Central Park in New York City was created when the New York State Legislature put aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island.

6-Jul

The National Black convention met in Rochester, New York, which ex-slave Frederick Douglass attended.

24-Mar

Anti-slavery newspaper “The Provincial Freeman” was first published in Windsor, Ontario, edited by Samuel Ringgold Ward and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the first Black woman

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Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

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