F.O. Stanley was one of the first to drive the Mt. Washington Auto Road in one of his newfangled steam powered automobiles! [from the Mt. Washington Auto Road Archives] |
1. The American Civil War
2. Longfellow’s poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” http://www.paulreveresride.org/
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://mit150.mit.edu/
4. The Mount Washington Auto Road http://nhjournal.com/2011/05/30/nh%E2%80%99s-mount-washington-road-celebrates-150-years/
5. Color Photography http://articles.boston.com/2011-05-25/bostonglobe/29582440_1_photographs-filters-color
6. The Pony Express delivers a letter from New York to San Francisco, July 3
7. The US Government imposes the first income tax to pay for the Civil War on August 5th
8. The flush toilet was patented Jan. 17th
Famous Births in 1861:
Solomon R. Gugenheim, 2 February 1861, philanthropist
Motilal Nehru, 6 May, 1861, Indian Freedom Fighter
Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 29 July 1861, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 6 August 1861, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
James A. Naismith, 6 November 1861, invented basketball
Lillian Russell, 4 December 1861, US singer/actress
Famous Deaths in 1861:
Elisha G. Otis, 8 April 1861, US elevator tycoon
Stephen A. Douglas, 3 June, 1861, US senator
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, 29 June, 1861, writer
Eliphalet Remington, 12 August, 1861, designed the Remington rifle
Prince Albert, 14 December 1861, consort to Queen Victoria
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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
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