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1849
January 23 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first American woman to receive an M.D. degree.
March 3 - The Home Department is formed by Congress and later becomes the Department of the Interior.
March 5 - Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th U.S. President.
April 10 - The safety pin is invented by Walter Hunt of New York City.
June 12 - The gas mask is patented by Lewis Haslett in Louisville, Kentucky.
October 7 - - Author and poet Edgar Allen Poe dies under mysterious circumstances in Baltimore, Maryland.
December 20 - The U.S. and the Hawaiian Islands sign a treaty of friendship, navigation and trade.