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1779 – Francis Scott Key, author of the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner", is born.; 1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts when white Irish Catholics attack 1,000 African-American members of the Young Men's Vigilant Association who were parading in celebration of the end of slavery in the British West Indies.
A People's History of the United States; Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States; Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States; The History of the United States of America 1801–1817; Oxford History of the United States; The Penguin History of the United States of America ...
August 9 – The Arikara War breaks out between the Arikara nation and the United States, the first American military conflict with the Plains Indians. August 23 – Hugh Glass is attacked and mauled by a sow grizzly bear and left for dead in the Missouri Territory. He crawls 200 miles before reaching help, events depicted in The Revenant.
August 27 – Operation Argus: The United States begins nuclear tests over the South Atlantic. September – The University of New Orleans begins classes as the first racially integrated public university in the Southern United States. September 15 – Newark Bay rail accident kills 48 people and injures the same number.
August 2 – Wild Bill Hickok is killed during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota. August 7 – George S. Houston is reelected the 24th governor of Alabama defeating Noadiah Woodruff. August 8 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. September 6 – Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to San Francisco completed.
August 8 – Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, professor of jurisprudence (died 1918) August 15 – Ethel Barrymore, actress (died 1959) August 20 – Ralph Budd, railroad president (died 1962) August 27 – Otis F. Glenn, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1928 to 1933 (died 1959) August 28 – Sydney Ayres, silent film actor (died 1916)
April 3 – John Willis Menard, African American politician (died 1893) April 12 – John Shaw Billings, military and medical leader (died 1913) April 16 – Martha McClellan Brown, temperance leader (died 1916) May 10 – John Wilkes Booth, actor and assassin of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (killed 1865)
Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter, 1973), pp. 104–108 William G. McLoughlin. Thomas Jefferson and the Beginning of Cherokee Nationalism, 1806 to 1809.