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7 June, 07:59
What happened in 1841?
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January 30 - A fire destroys 300 of the 500 housing units in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
February 18-March 11 - First ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate.
March 4 - William Henry Harrison is sworn in as the ninth President of the United States.
March 9 - Amistad: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the case that the Africans who seized control of the ship had been taken into slavery illegally.
April 4 - President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and at one month, the president with the shortest term served. He is succeeded by Vice President John Tyler, who becomes the tenth President of the United States.
April 6 - President John Tyler is sworn in.
April 20 - Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is published in Graham's Magazine (Philadelphia) (of which he became editor in February). The story will be recognized as the first significant work of detective fiction.[1][2]
June 21 - Fordham University is opened in The Bronx by the Society of Jesus as St. John's College.
July 28 - Mary Rogers, the "Beautiful Cigar Girl", is found murdered in New York City.
August 16 - U. S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U. S. history.
September 17 - John C. Colt murders Samuel Adams in an argument over a business debt in New York City.
c. November - The city of Dallas in Texas is founded by John Neely Bryan.
Frederick Douglass speaks at the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society Convention.
Iconic chocolate company Whitman's is established when Stephen F. Whitman opens a small retail "confectionery and fruiterer shop" at Third and Market Streets in Philadelphia.
P. T. Barnum purchases Scudder's American Museum in New York City.
The first steam self-propelled fire engine in the U. S. is completed by Paul Rapsey Hodge for use in New York City.
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