William Hoy – the most accomplished deaf player in Major League history who established the signals for safe and out calls
Clement Vallandigham – A defence lawyer who accidentally shot himself while trying to prove that someone shot himself. He died and the defendant was set free
All good things came out at the Columbian Expo – Hershey chocolate, Juicy Fruit gum, Pabst Blue Ribbon… you name it!
Back to the future – In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell invented the photophone, the world’s first device for wireless communications
The sad life of William Chester Minor – one of the largest contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary who was held in a lunatic asylum for murder at the time