Birth Of A Nation

Patrick Henry's Give me Liberty speech occurred, 1775

Vermont entered the Union, 1791 (14th)

Ohio entered the Union, 1803 (17th)

Maine entered the Union, 1820 (23rd)

Florida entered the Union, 1845 (27th)

Alaska sold to United States by Russia, 1867

Nebraska entered the Union, 1867 (37th)

Star Spangled Banner adopted as National Anthem of the United States, 1931

Inventions

Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented the washing machine, 1797

Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone, 1876 (March 7th)

Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone call, 1876 (March 10th)

Wabash, Indiana was the first town to be illuminated by electric lights, 1880

First long distance telephone call made from Boston to New York, 1884

Schick, Inc. marketed the first electric razor, 1931

RCA first produced color televisions, 1954

Births

Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, 1685

Fannie M. Farmer (first cookbook author) 1857

Physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, 1879

Marjorie Merriweather Post born, 1887

Theodor Seuss Geisel (a.k.a Dr. Seuss) was born 1904 in Springfield, MA.

Anna Magnani (Italian actress) born, 1908

Wilma Vaught (first female Brigadier General) born, 1930 ("What I wanted to be when I grew up was -- in charge.")

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor born, 1930

Gloria Steinem born, 1934

Deaths

Queen Elizabeth I of England died, 1603

Pocahontas (Mataoka) buried (born about 1595, dies March 1617)

Composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna, 1827

Charlotte Brontë (author of Wuthering Heights, Rebecca), died of pregnancy
complications, 1855

American Suffragist Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester, New York, 1906

Harriet Tubman (former escaped slave who started the Underground Railroad
which led hundreds of slaves to freedom) died, 1913

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Anti-Lynching Crusader) died, 1931

Anne Frank died, 1945

President Dwight D. Eisenhower died, 1969

Actor John Belushi found dead at age 33 of a drug overdose in Hollywood 1982

Ayn Rand (author of The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged) died, 1982

Elizabeth, Queen Mother, died at age 101, 2002

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