1845, Humming Tunes
MDCCCXLV
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (The Four Aces)
Barrett sends Browning the first love letter
Come Together (The Beatles)
Uniform federal election day established
Freebird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
“The Raven” published in New York Evening
Mirror
Rubber Band Man (The Spinners)
UK: rubber band patented by Stephen Perry
Because He Lives (The Gaithers)
Finland: only country to have Easter Sunday
Fire (The Pointer Sisters)
Fire destroys Pittsburgh
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Wallace Willis)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
American Slave published
Mashed Potato Time (Dee Dee Sharp)
Potato blight begins famine in Ireland
America the Beautiful (Katherine Bates and Samuel Ward)
Concept of Manifest Destiny coined by John
O’Sullivan
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