Fun Facts and Dates

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1802 July 7  The first comic book is printed.

1804 May 14 - Lewis and Clark set out an their expedition

1807 August 17 - the first steamboat trip was taken

1809 February 12th - Abraham Lincoln is born

1809 December 24 - Kit Carson is born

1819 August 1 - Herman Melville is born

1825 October 26 - The Erie Canal is opened

1828 April 14th - First Webster dictionary published

1828 September 9 - Leo Tolstoy is born

1832 November 29 - Louisa May Alcott is born

1835 November 30 - Mark Twain is born

1840 July 19th - Antarctica is officially discovered

1841 - November 4 - The first wagon train reaches California

1846 August 10 - Smithsonian Institute is created

1859 August 27 - The first working oil well is drilled