Curated playlist
1820 births
- Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony voted in 1872, waited, and was arrested days later. She then refused to pay her $100 fine.
- Victor Emmanuel IIItalian politicians called Victor Emmanuel II an imbecile, yet he became Italy's first king.
- Herbert SpencerIn 1937 the American sociologist Talcott Parsons asked a pointed question about Herbert Spencer: "Who now reads Spencer?" The question carried a sting. Spencer had once been called "the single most famous European intellectual in the…
- Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels rode with an aristocratic fox hunt while funding Karl Marx.
- William Tecumseh ShermanThe Cincinnati Commercial called Union general William Tecumseh Sherman insane in 1861. He later took Atlanta.
- Earl Van DornConfederate general Earl Van Dorn was shot at his own desk by a doctor. The doctor accused him of seducing his wife.
- George Templeton StrongGeorge Templeton Strong was fifteen years old on the 5th of October 1835, when he began a diary in New York City. He kept it going almost every day for nearly forty years. The finished work runs to 2,250 pages. Its author was a lawyer and…
- Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale broke into locked storage with a hammer to reach medicine for the wounded.
- Lorenz FrølichLorenz Frølich died on his 88th birthday. The Danish illustrator was born on October 25, 1820.
- John TyndallJohn Tyndall boiled meat broth, then kept it in dust-free air, and it stayed sweet for months.
- Afanasy FetPoet Afanasy Fet died in 1892 with a paper knife in his hand and a suicide note on the table.