Mar 03 Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps

Mar 25 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"

Mar 10 The first money minted in Hawaii

Mar 01 Michigan becomes first English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)

Mar 29 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico

Mar 09 Commodore David Connor leads successful amphibious assault near Vera Cruz, Mexico

Mar 03 Alexander Graham Bell speech therapist, audiologist, inventor, was born on this day in Edinburgh Scotland

Mar 18 First Dutch public telegram

Mar 07 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico

Mar 17 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Macbeth" is produced (Florence)

Mar 03 The birth of Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor of the telephone

Aug 26 Liberia becomes an independent republic.

Sep 10 The first theater opens in Hawaii

Sep 05 The birth of Jesse James, American outlaw of the Wild West

Sep 14 US troops under General Scott enter Mexico City

Sep 16 Shakespeares home in Stratford Upon Avon purchased for preservation

Feb 25 State University of Iowa is approved

Feb 22 Battle of Buena Vista US troops beat Mexican army

Feb 23 General Zachary Taylor leads US troops to defeat Mexican General Santa Anna and his army at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico.

Feb 04 The first US telegraph company established in Maryland

Feb 28 US defeats México in battle of Sacramento

Feb 11 The birth of Thomas Edison, American inventor

Apr 10 The birth of Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper owner

Apr 13 Naval Forces begin 5 day battle to capture several towns in Mexico

Nov 21 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200

Nov 29 Indians kill Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla

Nov 08 The birth of Bram Stoker, Irish author

Dec 13 Emily Bronte, under the pseudonym 'Ellis Bell', publishes 'Wuthering Heights'

Dec 03 Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper " North Star"

May 08 Robert Thompson patents rubber tire

May 02 Sabbath famine

May 04 New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration

May 05 The American Medical Association was organized in Philadelphia, PA.

May 31 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens

Jul 24 Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT

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