Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia rejects Frankfurt Parliament electing him German Kaiser

Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia elected German "Kaiser" by the Frankfurt Parliament. 290 delegates voted for the resolution and 248 against. Friedrich Wilhelm would reject the authority of the parliament to name him "Kaiser". On that same day the parliament declared the new constitution in force.
Friedrich Wilhelm was known more as an artist than a levelheaded politician. Having a love, and talent, for architecture. He believed in his ruling by "divine right" and was instrumental in trying to drive his country back to its Protestant roots, being deeply religious himself.
On March 28th, 1849 the Frankfurt Parliament voted 290 to 248 in favor of naming King Friedrich Wilhelm the German Kaiser. Not a fan of parliaments or constitutions; he rejected supposedly saying that he would not accept "a crown made of mud and clay".
Although shortly thereafter, he abolished the Frankfurt Parliament and formed a new constitution that created a parliament with two chambers; an aristocratic upper house and an elected lower house. This was a more liberal system than had existed in Prussia before 1848, but was still a conservative system of government in which the monarch, the aristocracy, and the military retained most of the power. This constitution remained in effect until the dissolution of the Prussian kingdom in 1918.

Father of X-Rays Born Today in 1845

Wilhelm Röntgen was born today in 1845. He was a German physicist who on November 8th, 1895 produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays. For this he won the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. He named the new rays "x" to indicate they were unknown. His very first "medical" x-ray was of his wifes hand. Some of his colleagues (against his wishes) tried to rename the rays "Röntgen Rays".
Röntgen was professor of physics at the universities of Strasbourg, Giessen, Würzburg and Munich.
When Röntgen died in 1923 he was nearly bankrupt and his personal and scientific correspondence was destroyed upon his death.