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Jun 30   On this day in history ricardo Drigo, composer  Share it »

Jul 03   On this day in history achilles Alferaki, composer  Share it »

Jul 07   On this day in history uS annexs California  Share it »

Jul 09   Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US on this day in history.  Share it »

Jul 19   On this day in history charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist  Share it »

Jul 21   On this day in history mormons found 1st English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley)  Share it »

Jul 21   Mormons found first English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley) on this day in history.  Share it »

Jul 24   On this day in history joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81  Share it »

Aug 01   On this day in history peter Ritter, composer, dies at 83  Share it »

Aug 04   On this day in history silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer  Share it »

Aug 05   Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel on this day in history.  Share it »

Aug 07   Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  Share it »

Aug 10   Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution on this day in history.  Share it »

Aug 10   Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution on this day in history.  Share it »

Aug 10   Smithsonian Institution founded in the United States on this day in history.  Share it »

Aug 13   On this day in history joint expedition led by CDR Robert Stockton seizes Los Angeles, CA  Share it »

Aug 14   Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance on this day in history.  Share it »

Aug 16   On this day in history gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe Pélissier in Paris  Share it »

Aug 16   Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor (Groene) on this day in history.  Share it »

Aug 17   On this day in history uS fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California  Share it »

Aug 17   On this day in history uS takes Los Angeles  Share it »

Aug 18   Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe NM on this day in history.  Share it »

Aug 18   On this day in history gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe, NM  Share it »

Aug 22   B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norway, writer (Hellemyrsfolket) on this day in history.  Share it »

Aug 22   On this day in history uS annexes New Mexico  Share it »

Aug 25   On this day in history giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat, dies at 73  Share it »

Aug 25   On this day in history louise J Gautier, French poetess  Share it »

Aug 26   Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah," premieres on this day in history.  Share it »

Aug 26   On this day in history w A Bartlett appointed first US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)  Share it »

Aug 27   Frantiszek Scigalski, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  Share it »

Aug 31   On this day in history committee established in Sydney to organise appeal for Irish famine.  Share it »

Sep 04   On this day in history daniel Burnham, US, architect/built skyscrapers  Share it »

Sep 05   On this day in history john W Cromwell, Secy (American Negro Academy)  Share it »

Sep 10   Elias Howe patents sewing machine on this day in history.  Share it »

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Jan 01   Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier (1891..1926) was born on this day in history.  Share it »

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of sandor Erkel, composer  Share it »

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)  Share it »

Jan 08   On this day in history birth of albert Cahen, composer  Share it »

Jan 08   On this day in history birth of william Wallace Gilchrist, composer  Share it »

Jan 29   Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915) was born on this day in history.  Share it »

Jan 30   Francis H Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism) was born on this day in history.  Share it »

Feb 04   Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915) was born on this day in history.  Share it »

Jan 05   On this day in history death of alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (b. 1812)  Share it »

Jan 10   On this day in history etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75  Share it »

Feb 03   Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79 on this day in history.  Share it »

Feb 09   Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies on this day in history.  Share it »

Feb 14   On this day in history cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch supreme court justice, dies at 76  Share it »

Feb 18   On this day in history giovanni Liverati, composer, dies at 73  Share it »

Feb 21   On this day in history death of emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)  Share it »

Feb 22   On this day in history carolus Antonius Fodor, composer, dies at 77  Share it »