1824 - John Quincy Adams defeats Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay in election of 1824; Adams immediately appoints Clay his new Secretary of State, which Jackson calls their "Corrupt Bargain"
1828 - John Calhoun (Jackson's vice-president) anonymously publishes South Carolina Exposition and Protest, arguing that states can nullify certain federal laws
1832 - Jackson re-elected amid struggle with Nicholas Biddle[?] over the fate of the Second Bank of the United States; this struggle leads to the Panic of 1837
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William Parry[?], (born 1790), Arctic explorer
Robert Edwin Peary, (1856-1920), first man to reach the North Pole
Auguste Piccard, (1884-1962), ...