Elizabeth Jennings Graham, a black school teacher, tried to board a segregated horse drawn streetcar, the conductor objected and expelled her from the rail car.
Philip Sousa (Conductor)
Charles Post (Cereal Mogul)
Oscar Wilde (Poet, Playwright)
Englebert Humperdinck (Composer)
Alfred Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, “The charge of the Light Brigade,” was published in England.
Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the
The charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of 600 cavalry attacked the Russian guns against hopeless
Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” recounting his experiment in solitary life on the shores of Massachusetts’ Walden Pond was published.
The Republican Party came into being at a convention in Jackson, Michigan.
