In 1851, Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.
In 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he dified Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
In 1898, Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States after Congress passed a joint resolution. Hawaii was granted territorial status in 1900, and became the 50th state of the union in 1959.
In 1898, the peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
In 1915, the novel "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, was published.