#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | THE SUNDAY SCARIES $800: That high schooler is anxious about their Monday oral presentation on the 1821 2nd Compromise that let this state join the Union Missouri |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | OTHER RED, WHITE & BLUE FLAGS $1600: From 1748 to 1814, this nation flew the Danish flag; it added a dark blue cross within the white cross on the red field in 1821 Norway |
#8926, aired 2023-09-11 | MISSISSIPPI LEARNING $1200: Central location--huge! In 1821 Miss. put the capital at LeFleur's Bluff but would rename it this, honoring a future president Jackson |
#8913, aired 2023-07-12 | THE ____ OF CANADA $200: McGill University, founded 1821, is sometimes called this, after a university founded in 1636 the Harvard of Canada |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $3,200 (Daily Double): Due south of Egypt, this capital with about 6 million people began as an Egyptian army camp in 1821 Khartoum |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: Starting in 1821 it was a commercial trail southwest from Missouri; in 1846 Stephen Kearny & his troops used it to invade Mexico the Santa Fe Trail |
#8790, aired 2023-01-20 | THIS PIECE OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO $800: Part of this job was issuing ukases, like the one from 1821 claiming all fishing rights off what's now Alaska plus most of British Columbia czar |
#8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: This university was chartered in 1821 after a bequest from Montreal merchant James, not "Slippin' Jimmy" of "Better Call Saul" fame McGill (University) |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $800: Henri Bertrand stuck by Napoleon all through his 1814-1821 exiles on these 2 islands Elba & St. Helena |
#8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MEXICAN HISTORY $400: 1821's "Three Guarantees" were independence, equality of Spaniards & Creoles & supremacy of this religion Catholicism |
#8603, aired 2022-03-23 | INCREDIBLY ELF-CENTERED $2000: Follow the lieder! This composer found some early success in 1821 with a song called "Elf King" Schubert |
#8586, aired 2022-02-28 | OLD SCHOOL $1000: 2 very different things, plexiglass & the artificial blood cell, were invented at this Montreal university founded in 1821 McGill |
#8541, aired 2021-12-27 | PAINTINGS $2000: "The Hay Wain" is a famous 1821 painting by this English landscape artist Constable |
#8531, aired 2021-12-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: This Native American finished devising a Cherokee syllabary of 86 symbols around 1821 Sequoyah |
#8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 200 YEARS AGO $200: Some surmise that arsenic in the wallpaper contributed to this leader's death on the island of St. Helena in 1821 Napoleon |
#8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 200 YEARS AGO $400: In 1821 a Spanish viceroy signed a treaty giving this New World country its independence Mexico |
#8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 200 YEARS AGO $600: In 1821 this future president served briefly as Florida's governor; he'd fought there in the War of 1812 Jackson |
#8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 200 YEARS AGO $800: Noah Webster helped found this Massachusetts liberal arts college in 1821 Amherst |
#8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 200 YEARS AGO $1000: Later to be America's first homegrown saint, she wrote before her 1821 passing, "I'll be wild Betsy to the last" (Elizabeth Ann) Seton |
#8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 1821 $400: "Show Me" you know it became the 24th U.S. state Missouri |
#8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 1821 $800: Long known as simply "The Post", this publication printed its first issue The Saturday Evening Post |
#8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 1821 $1200: A Frenchman in Cairo discovered some neglected plants, leading to the Egyptian type of this fabric cotton |
#8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 1821 $1600: This country formally ceded Florida to the U.S. July 17, 1821 Spain |
#8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 1821 $2000: The 4th British king of this name had a lavish coronation with dress inspired by the Tudor & Stuart eras George IV |
#8233, aired 2020-06-10 | EMMA-NATION $800: In 1821 Emma Willard opened what's now the Emma Willard School; an early student was this daughter of Judge Daniel Cady Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | ALTERNATIVE SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN $600: Not sparing it to spoil the child in "The Children's Friend" in 1821, Santa left parents "a long, black birchen" this to use the rod |
#8075, aired 2019-10-18 | LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS $400: Last name of Louisiana privateer Pierre, who died following a skirmish in 1821; brother Jean outlived him Lafitte |
#7977, aired 2019-04-23 | TALKING DEAD $800: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water" & "Feb. 24th 1821" are writ on the tombstone of this tubercular poet (John) Keats |
#7958, aired 2019-03-27 | HE WAS SENATOR & PRESIDENT $1000: This New Yorker & future president joined the Senate in 1821 & soon led the fight against imprisonment for debt Martin Van Buren |
#7955, aired 2019-03-22 | U.S. ISLANDS $2000: From 1817 to 1821 Jean Lafitte ran his main smuggling operation from this island off the coast of Texas Galveston |
#7947, aired 2019-03-12 | FRIEND OF THE COURT $2000: The first amicus curiae filed before the Supreme Court came in 1821 from this Kentucky attorney & congressman Henry Clay |
#7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: From 1821 until 1848 this country controlled what is today California Mexico |
#7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE "BEST" WORDS $400: An 1821 poem called "the faithful dog" man's best friend |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | SAINTS ON EARTH $200: From 1815 to 1821 Napoleon had a lot of time to sit right there & think about what he'd done on this island 1,200 mi. off Africa Saint Helena |
#7718, aired 2018-03-14 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1821 it was made the capital of Gran Colombia, it's still a capital today Bogota |
#7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARD $400: In 1821 Britain became the first adopter of the gold standard, dropping this metal from its bimetallic system silver |
#7591, aired 2017-09-18 | EXPLORERS $1200: Frozen in for 9 months on an 1821 search for this route, Wm. Parry began the Royal Arctic Theatre to entertain his crew the Northwest Passage |
#7585, aired 2017-07-28 | PLAN $400: The 1821 Plan de Iguala, named for a city in Guerrero, led to this country's independence from Spain Mexico |
#7549, aired 2017-06-08 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $800: This English poet who died age 25 in 1821 is buried in Rome under an inscription about his malicious enemies Keats |
#7545, aired 2017-06-02 | THE MANCUNIAN $1600: Manchester-born addict Thomas de Quincey wrote 1821's "Confessions of an English" eater of this drug opium |
#7380, aired 2016-10-14 | THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS $1200: In 1821 William Becknell opened this great commercial trail between Missouri & New Mexico the Santa Fe Trail |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | NAPOLEON $400: An island boy from beginning to end, Napoleon died on this rock in 1821 Saint Helena |
#7357, aired 2016-09-13 | SUDAN IMPACT $800: This Ottoman viceroy of Egypt invaded Sudan in 1820; he stung like a bee & KO'd the sultan in 1821 Muhammad Ali |
#7322, aired 2016-06-14 | HEROES $1200: Founded in Manchester in 1821, this newspaper with a heroic name is one of England's most influential The Manchester Guardian |
#7321, aired 2016-06-13 | WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR FROM NEW YORK $200 (Daily Double): This Dutch man flew into his seat on March 4, 1821 but that wasn't his last stop, politically Van Buren |
#7169, aired 2015-11-12 | OUTSIDE THE BACHS $1200: At age 12 in 1821 Mendelssohn met this German poet to whom he later dedicated a piano quartet Goethe |
#7157, aired 2015-10-27 | MOVERS & SHAKERS $200: In 1821 William Becknell left Missouri & made it to New Mexico, thus blazing this trail the Santa Fe Trail |
#7021, aired 2015-03-09 | WHAT A COUNTRY! $800: In 1821 the American Colonization Society secured the land that became this African country Liberia |
#6985, aired 2015-01-16 | EUROPEAN PAINTERS $600: A wagon is the subject of "The Hay Wain", an 1821 work by this English landscape painter (John) Constable |
#6965, aired 2014-12-19 | ECONOMICS $2000: In 1821 Great Britain instituted this system in which a metal provides the reference point for currency the gold standard |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: Before his 1821 election to the Tennessee legislature, this frontiersman served as a justice of the peace Davy Crockett |
#6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Thomas De Quincey's 1821 "Confessions of an English" eater or user of this drug is a classic of addiction lit opium |
#6755, aired 2014-01-17 | IT BORDERS TENNESSEE $1000: Natchez was the capital of this state from 1817 to 1821 Mississippi |
#6726, aired 2013-12-09 | MILITARY GOVERNORS $800: In 1821 this future president was appointed military governor of Florida (Andrew) Jackson |
#6693, aired 2013-10-23 | '21 $600: 1821:
In his second inaugural, he pats himself on the back for the acquisition of Florida Monroe |
#6603, aired 2013-05-08 | YES, THEY WILL $800 (Daily Double): His 1821 will, written on St. Helena, stipulated that his ashes be scattered "on the banks of the Seine" Napoléon (Bonaparte) |
#6566, aired 2013-03-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Located about 1,000 miles south of Cairo, it rose on the site of an Egyptian army camp in 1821 Khartoum |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | NEW YORK SENATORS $400: Later president, he was a New York senator from 1821 to 1828 Van Buren |
#6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $1200: Born in Moscow November 11, 1821, gave "Notes From the Underground", headed underground February 9, 1881 Dostoyevsky |
#6330, aired 2012-03-09 | THE CHEROKEE NATION $1000: This man is seen here with the Cherokee syllabary he invented in 1821 Sequoyah |
#6321, aired 2012-02-27 | 5 FLAGS OVER TEXAS $600: In 1821 this newly independent nation took control of Texas Mexico |
#6215, aired 2011-09-30 | "G" WHAT A COUNTRY $1200: This New World country gained its independence from Spain in 1821 Guatemala |
#6124, aired 2011-04-07 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $600: First used in 1821, this Old West trail connected Missouri with New Mexico the Santa Fe Trail |
#6036, aired 2010-12-06 | HAPPY TRAILS $200: An important commercial route, this trail to New Mexico was started in 1821 the Santa Fe Trail |
#5920, aired 2010-05-14 | SPY NOVELS $800: This author's 1821 novel "The Spy" was written before frontier tales like "The Pioneers" James Fenimore Cooper |
#5919, aired 2010-05-13 | PAST LIVES $400: On June 24, 1821 this Caracas-born leader crushed the Spanish army at Carabobo in Venezuela Bolívar |
#5912, aired 2010-05-04 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1000: U.Va. is in Charlottesville; UBA, founded in 1821, is in this South American city the University of Buenos Aires |
#5733, aired 2009-07-08 | THIS AMERICAN LIFE $2,200 (Daily Double): Born Christmas 1821, becomes angel on Civil War battlefields, becomes angel April 12, 1912 Clara Barton |
#5718, aired 2009-06-17 | THE PREMATURE BURIAL $2000: This romantic poet was only 25 when he died in Italy of tuberculosis in 1821 John Keats |
#5692, aired 2009-05-12 | VIVA MEXICO! $400: As a colony of that country, from 1521 to 1821 Mexico was known as New this Spain |
#5560, aired 2008-11-07 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1821 Panama broke away from Spain & became a province of this country Colombia |
#5547, aired 2008-10-21 | I HAVE A QUESTION $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1821 he wrote mournfully,
"Where was lorn Urania when Adonais died?" Shelley |
#5494, aired 2008-06-26 | SOLDIERS $2000: In 1821 this veteran of the Seminole Wars was appointed provisional gov. of Florida but didn't serve a year Andrew Jackson |
#5464, aired 2008-05-15 | PERU $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a square in Lima, Peru.) It was here in Lima in 1821 that this Argentine general declared Peru's independence from Spain (Jose de San) Martin |
#5408, aired 2008-02-27 | MISSING BODY PARTS $400: An American urologist is said to own a very important part of this French leader who died on May 5, 1821 Napoleon |
#5325, aired 2007-11-02 | MAGAZINES $400: From its founding in 1821 & up to 1942, the Saturday Evening Post was sold at this price five cents |
#5280, aired 2007-07-20 | STATE CAPITALS $200: In 1821 Mississippi named its capital for this hero of the War of 1812; he didn't become president until 8 years later (Andrew) Jackson |
#5275, aired 2007-07-13 | TO INJURY $800: In 1821 this poet had a hard time counting the ways she loved thee, what with injuring her spine in a fall Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
#5095, aired 2006-11-03 | MOSESES $1600: In 1821 he got an OK from Mexico to bring U.S. settlers into the Texas area; his son Stephen carried on his work (Moses) Austin |
#4843, aired 2005-10-05 | INTERNATIONAL ROAD VEHICLE STICKERS $400: It first achieved independence in 1821 Costa Rica |
#4814, aired 2005-07-07 | ANDREW JACKSON'S HERMITAGE $2000: Jackson retired to the Hermitage in 1821 after being gov. of this territory, but at 54 the presidency still lay ahead Florida |
#4589, aired 2004-07-15 | LATIN AMERICA $1200: When Guatemala gained its independence in 1821, it claimed this eastern neighbor, a claim lasting 170 years Belize |
#4563, aired 2004-06-09 | MUSEUMS $600: A museum in Springer, New Mexico bears the name of this Old West trail that opened in 1821 the Santa Fe Trail |
#4506, aired 2004-03-22 | POETS $1,000 (Daily Double): After his death in 1821, a fellow poet wrote that he was fragile & was "killed off by one critique" (John) Keats |
#4441, aired 2003-12-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN $600 (Daily Double): Born in 1821, she's the only woman in modern history to have founded a major religion Mary Baker Eddy |
#4331, aired 2003-06-02 | "SHOW" $1000: Official nickname of the entity that joined the United States on August 10, 1821 "Show-Me State" (Missouri) |
#4311, aired 2003-05-05 | GENERAL SCIENCE $800: This aluminum ore is named for the French village near where it was discovered in 1821 bauxite |
#4243, aired 2003-01-29 | A LITERARY TOUR $1600: The building near Rome's Spanish Steps where this English romantic poet died in 1821 is now a memorial & library John Keats |
#4098, aired 2002-05-29 | 5 PEOPLE WHO'VE NEVER BEEN IN MY KITCHEN $600: He died on May 5, 1821 on the island of St. Helena Napoleon Bonaparte |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $800: Natchez
(1798-1802 & 1817-1821) Mississippi |
#3940, aired 2001-10-19 | U.K. DEPENDENCIES $500: Napoleon was, so to speak, dependent on this island from 1815 to 1821 St. Helena |
#3872, aired 2001-06-05 | DEAR JOHN $1000: In 1821 the remains of this major, who conspired with Benedict Arnold, were moved to Westminster Abbey John Andre |
#3866, aired 2001-05-28 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $1000: In 1821, at age 12, this Jewish-born German composer met Goethe, who was impressed with the boy Mendelssohn |
#3817, aired 2001-03-20 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: On April 15, 1821 President Monroe appointed him the first governor of the territory of Florida Andrew Jackson |
#3575, aired 2000-03-03 | A LOSING BATTLE $300: In the 1821 Battle of Carabobo, Spanish general Miguel de la Torre was no match for this South American Simon Bolivar |
#3443, aired 1999-07-21 | HISTORIC AMERICA $1000: In 1821 Spain transferred control of Florida to the U.S. in this "City of Five Flags" Pensacola |
#3407, aired 1999-06-01 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $100: An unemployed soldier, 1821:
"Josephine!" Napoleon Bonaparte |
#3390, aired 1999-05-07 | THE 19th CENTURY $1000: The U.S. formally acquired it in 1821; it became a territory in 1822 & a state in 1845 Florida |
#3378, aired 1999-04-21 | 1820s AMERICA $400: On Aug. 10, 1821 it entered the Union as a slave state with Thomas Hart Benton representing it in the Senate Missouri |
#3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THEATRE $400: Junius Brutus, patriarch of this acting family, made his U.S. debut in 1821 as Richard III Booth |
#3280, aired 1998-12-04 | WHEN WAS THAT, PIERRE? $1,000 (Daily Double): Une annee horrible was this year of Napoleon's death, 6 years after Waterloo 1821 |
#3271, aired 1998-11-23 | THE LONE STAR STATE $500: From 1817 to 1821 Jean Lafitte used this Texas island as his headquarters Galveston Island |
#3264, aired 1998-11-12 | 1820s AMERICA $300: In December 1821 he established the first American settlement in Texas Stephen F. Austin |
#3066, aired 1997-12-22 | BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY $200: Think of this "Angel of the Battlefield", born on Christmas in 1821, when you look at the angel on your tree Clara Barton |
#2910, aired 1997-04-04 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A compromise allowed Maine's admission to the union in 1820 as a free state & this as a slave state in 1821 Missouri |
#2876, aired 1997-02-17 | HISTORY $1000: In 1821 Panama broke away from Spanish rule & became a province of this country Colombia |
#2852, aired 1997-01-14 | INVENTORS $1000: Sequoya's invention of one of these was completed by 1821 an alphabet |
#2839, aired 1996-12-26 | EXILES $200: From 1815 to 1821 the Farmhouse of Longwood on the island of St. Helena was this exile's home Napoleon Bonaparte |
#2780, aired 1996-10-04 | THE 1820s $500: Although it was founded in 1821, this Montreal university didn't open until 1829 McGill |
#2752, aired 1996-07-16 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $100: While in exile on the island of St. Helena from 1815-1821, he dictated his memoirs to friends Napoleon |
#2744, aired 1996-07-04 | WORLD CITIES $800: In 1821 this Sudanese capital was founded by Egypt's Muhammad Ali Khartoum |
#2708, aired 1996-05-15 | THE 5th $200: This French emperor died in exile on St. Helena May 5, 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte |
#2708, aired 1996-05-15 | THE 5th $800: Since the 4th was a Sunday, this 5th president was sworn in for his 2nd term March 5, 1821 Monroe |
#2681, aired 1996-04-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: By 1821 he developed the Cherokee alphabet that would enable thousands to read & write Sequoyah |
#2654, aired 1996-02-29 | WARS $1,400 (Daily Double): The Ypsilanti Rebellion of 1821 began this Balkan country's War of Independence Greece |
#2587, aired 1995-11-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1821 this future president became governor of the newly-acquired Florida Territory Andrew Jackson |
#2532, aired 1995-09-12 | THE 19th CENTURY $300: This country rebelled against the Ottoman Turks in 1821 & received independence in 1830 Greece |
#2492, aired 1995-06-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: This founder of the American Red Cross was born on Christmas Day in 1821 Clara Barton |
#2467, aired 1995-05-02 | STATE CAPITALS $500: In 1821 this city between St. Louis & Kansas City was chosen as a state capital Jefferson City (Missouri) |
#2378, aired 1994-12-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: Prior to his election to the Tennessee legislature in 1821, this frontiersman was a Justice of the Peace Davy Crockett |
#2315, aired 1994-09-30 | SHIPS $200: In 1821 Great Britain launched the Aaron Manby, the first iron- hulled ship powered by this a steam engine |
#2287, aired 1994-07-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: This hero of the Battle of New Orleans served as provisional governor of Florida in 1821 (Andrew) Jackson |
#2201, aired 1994-03-14 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: On his deathbed in 1821, his final word is said to have been "Josephine" Napoleon |
#2137, aired 1993-12-14 | NEWSPAPERS $600: The Arkansas Gazette was founded in Arkansas Post & moved to this city in 1821 Little Rock |
#2029, aired 1993-06-03 | WORLD CITIES $200: This South American city was capital of the Portuguese Empire from 1808 to 1821 Rio de Janiero |
#1918, aired 1992-12-30 | POETS & POETRY $1000: On the death of John Keats in 1821, this poet wrote "Adonais" Shelley |
#1887, aired 1992-11-17 | EDUCATION $200: America's first public high school was opened in 1821 in this New England capital Boston |
#1859, aired 1992-10-08 | GOLD $600: In 1821, this European country was the first to make gold a standard for its money Great Britain |
#1724, aired 1992-02-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1821 he became Florida's provisional governor; 8 years later he became president Andrew Jackson |
#1718, aired 1992-02-05 | TREATIES $1000: Robert Stockton helped the American Colonization Soc. with an 1821 treaty to secure what is now this African country Liberia |
#1699, aired 1992-01-09 | FAMOUS NURSES $200: Born in Oxford, Mass. in 1821, she was christened Clarissa Harlowe Clara Barton |
#1635, aired 1991-10-11 | 19th C. AMERICANS $1000: This noted lexicographer helped found Amherst College in 1821 Noah Webster |
#1587, aired 1991-06-25 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: At age 19, this humanitarian established the Dix Mansion school for girls in Boston in 1821 Dorothea Dix |
#1572, aired 1991-06-04 | STATE PARKS $600: A plantation house where this ornithologist taught & worked in 1821 is preserved in a Louisiana park Audubon |
#1464, aired 1991-01-03 | RULERS $400: In 1821, this ex-emperor said, "I die before my time, killed by the English oligarchy & its hired assassins" Napoleon |
#1429, aired 1990-11-15 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $300: He was buried on St. Helena in his favorite uniform in 1821 but was moved to Paris in 1840 Napoleon |
#1408, aired 1990-10-17 | MAGAZINES $800: Started in 1821 in Philadelphia, it became something of a nat'l institution after Curtis bought it in 1897 The Saturday Evening Post |
#1015, aired 1989-01-20 | POETS $800: This poet known for his odes was only 25 when he died of tuberculosis in 1821 Keats |
#979, aired 1988-12-01 | MAGAZINES $800: This magazine began publishing on August 4, 1821, but years later they concluded Ben Franklin had started it in 1728 The Saturday Evening Post |
#961, aired 1988-11-07 | PRESIDENTS $300: The 1st time this group played for an inauguration was at James Monroe's in 1821 Marine Band |
#889, aired 1988-06-16 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: A former lawyer & schoolteacher, this noted lexicographer helped found Amherst College in 1821 Noah Webster |
#789, aired 1988-01-28 | WORLD LITERATURE $600: Subtitled "The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", in 1821 it became 1st book tried for sexual obscenity in U.S. Fanny Hill |
#782, aired 1988-01-19 | LOUISIANIANS $400: Though pardoned after the War of 1812, he returned to piracy & disappeared about 1821 Jean Lafitte |
#551, aired 1987-01-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: His 1st successful book, in 1821, was "The Spy", about a double agent, not a noble savage James Fenimore Cooper |
#396, aired 1986-03-17 | FACTS & FIGURES $500: The world's largest self-supporting structure is the 1821 foot CN Tower in this city Toronto |
#345, aired 1986-01-03 | AFRICA $200: Country founded in 1821 as haven for liberated American slaves Liberia |
#312, aired 1985-11-19 | LANGUAGES $1000: In 1821, he became only person to invent, unaided, an entire alphabet & numbering system Sequoyah |