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Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his ...
Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
August 9 – The Wallingford Tornado of 1878, the deadliest tornadoin Connecticuthistory, destroys the town of Wallingford, killing 34 people and injuring 70 or more. September 30 – The ship Priscillaarrives in Hawaiifrom Funchal, Madeira, marking the beginning of the Portugueseimmigration to the Hawaiian Islands(1878–1913).
Thomas Augustus Watson. (1854-01-18) January 18, 1854. Salem, Massachusetts, US. Died. December 13, 1934 (1934-12-13) (aged 80) Pass-a-Grille, Florida, US. Spouse. Elizabeth Watson (Until 1934) Thomas Augustus Watson (January 18, 1854 – December 13, 1934) was an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, notably in the invention of the telephone in ...
March 14 – Victor Bridges, English novelist, playwright and poet (died 1972) April 15 – Robert Walser, Swiss author and poet writing in German (died 1956) June 1 – John Masefield, English poet (died 1967) June 12 – James Oliver Curwood, American author (died 1927) August 2 – Berta Ruck, Indian-born Welsh romantic novelist (died 1978 ...
Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 – December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was very popular, with a crowd of more than 4,000 attending a poetry reading once, which was a record that stood for 85 years. [2] His travelogues were popular in both the United States and Great ...
2009 – A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32. [47] 2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine. [48]
Signature. John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the " Galveston Giant ", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". [ 4 ]