In 1852 this hero of Verzcruz in the Mexican War was nominated by the Whig party as its presidential candidate

In 1793 this Irish college allowed Catholics to study for degrees for the first time In 1804 Justice Samuel Chase was impeached for comments critical of this president's administration In 1805 U.S. Marines stormed the shores of this Barbary state at Derna, helping to end the raids on American ships In 1814 & 1815 this island 6 miles off Tuscany was a sovereign state ruled by Napoleon In 1862 the Union captured this Louisiana capital; the Confederates moved the capital to Opelousas In 1865 this New York Tribune editor who dropped out of school at age 14 urged young people to head to the Frontier In 1869 this Austrian monk published a paper on hawkweed: the experiments didn't work as well as the ones with peas In 1872 this composer conducted his Aida at La Scala in Milan