1859 Katherine Lee Bates – US author and educator who wrote America the Beautiful

And never sung better than the way Kate Smith did.

1851 Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine

I have a miniature Singer my dad bought from an 80 year old woman when I was just a toddler. It has a motor attached, but when I got older, I was only allowed to use it without the motor. On Antiques Roadshow, when it was in L.A., I took it, and it was only valued at $100 back in early 1990s.