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Sep 09   Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907) on this day in history.  Share it »

Sep 17   On this day in history g F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function)  Share it »

Sep 22   J P Hebel, writer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  Share it »

Sep 27   On this day in history the first ever passenger railway opens in the UK, The Stockton and Darlington  Share it »

Oct 03   Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Labyrinth), dies on this day in history.  Share it »

Oct 07   Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations on this day in history.  Share it »

Oct 07   Granite Railway (First chartered railway in US) begins operations on this day in history.  Share it »

Oct 07   William Brimage Bate, US Confederate brig-gen/(Gov-D-Tenn, 1882-86) on this day in history.  Share it »

Oct 08   On this day in history matt Whitaker Ransom, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1904  Share it »

Oct 13   Lafayette Curry Baker, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 on this day in history.  Share it »

Oct 16   On this day in history piotr Studzinski, composer  Share it »

Oct 22   On this day in history guglielmo Quarenghi, composer  Share it »

Oct 31   Hugh Boyle Ewing, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1905 on this day in history.  Share it »

Nov 02   On this day in history robert Hopkins Hatton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862  Share it »

Nov 03   On this day in history jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867  Share it »

Nov 15   Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura on this day in history.  Share it »

Nov 17   On this day in history john McArthur, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906  Share it »

Nov 17   Louise Reichardt, composer, dies at 47 on this day in history.  Share it »

Nov 22   Pavel Lambert Masek, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.  Share it »

Nov 23   On this day in history agustin Bethencourt, Venezuela publisher on Curacao  Share it »

Nov 24   On this day in history collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian author (Pinocchio)  Share it »

Nov 25   On this day in history the Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.  Share it »

Nov 27   John Walker invents friction match in England on this day in history.  Share it »

Nov 30   On this day in history george Washington Deitzler, Brig General (Union volunteers)  Share it »

Dec 01   On this day in history william Mahone, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895  Share it »

Dec 03   On this day in history edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist  Share it »

Dec 05   On this day in history john Benjamin Sanborn, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1904  Share it »

Dec 07   On this day in history john Flaxman, Engl sculptor (tombs at St Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71  Share it »

Dec 08   Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist on this day in history.  Share it »

Dec 10   Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  Share it »

Dec 15   On this day in history william Browser, revolting slave, executed in NYC  Share it »

Dec 16   On this day in history benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.  Share it »

Dec 18   Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz) on this day in history.  Share it »

Dec 21   Ernst Pauer, composer on this day in history.  Share it »

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Jan 06   Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson) was born on this day in history.  Share it »

Jan 12   Charles Cruft, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 was born on this day in history.  Share it »

Jan 15   On this day in history birth of mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen)  Share it »

Jan 22   On this day in history birth of [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson, Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876  Share it »

Jan 25   Rembt T H P L A van Boneval Faure, Dutch MP was born on this day in history.  Share it »

Jan 26   On this day in history birth of julia Dent Grant, 1st lady (1862-76)  Share it »

Jan 27   Richard Taylor, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879 was born on this day in history.  Share it »

Feb 03   On this day in history birth of walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist  Share it »

Jan 03   On this day in history death of louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)  Share it »

Jan 17   Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806) died on this day in history.  Share it »

Feb 13   Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745) died on this day in history.  Share it »

Feb 25   Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60 on this day in history.  Share it »

Mar 01   J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59 on this day in history.  Share it »

Mar 10   On this day in history johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56  Share it »

Mar 11   On this day in history gervais-Francois Couperin, composer, dies at 66  Share it »

Mar 27   On this day in history jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63  Share it »