Allen’s Place

The will to succeed is important, but even more important is the will to prepare!!  By Bobby Knight

POLITICS

• 1849 Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th president.
• 1850  Zachary Taylor dies; Millard Fillmore becomes president.
• 1850 Taiping Rebellion occurs in China.
• 1851 Cuba declares its independence.

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

• 1838 Charles Dickens writes Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby.
• 1839 The first baseball game is played in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1841 The first university degrees are granted to women in America.
• 1841 Adolph Sax invents the saxophone.



SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• 1839 Charles Goodyear discovers the process of vulcanization, making possible the commercial use of rubber.
• 1839 Carl August Steinheil builds the first electric clock.
• 1841 Scottish surgeon James Braid discovers hypnosis.