1856

Woodrow Wilson (former U.S. President)

Frank Kellogg (United States Secretary of State, tried to outlaw war, Nobel 1929)

George Bernard Shaw (Playwright)

Nikola Tesla (Physicist, electrical engineer, inventor)

Robert Peary (American arctic explorer)

Sigmund Freud (Psychiatrist)

Booker T. Washington (Civil Rights Leader from 1890 – 1915)

Henry Ossian Flipper (former slave, first African-American to graduate from West Point)

The Republican Party opened its first convention, in Philadelphia.

John Brown and abolitionist settlers killed five pro-slavery settlers in Franklin County, Kansas, known as the Pottawatomie Massacre.

Reviews