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1832  James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator).   

1834  HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia   

1842  Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope.   

1847  Naval Forces begin 5 day battle to capture several towns in Mexico.   

1847  Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies)   

1849  Hungarian Republic proclaimed   

1849  Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/psychologist.   

1852  F.W Woolworth, US founder of the 'Woolworth' stores is born.   

1854  Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)   

1858  John Quinn's Peninsula Hotel destroyed when storm cuts channel through peninsula, creating Toronto Island.   

1860  1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento Calif.   

1860  James Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen).   

1861  After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederates   

1861  Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.   

1863  Battle of Irish Bend, LA (Ft Bisland).   

1864  Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74.   

1865  Sherman's march through Georgia begins   

1865  Sherman's march through Georgia begins Southerners start promising that the South will rise again.   

1865  Battle of Raleigh, NC.   

1865  Heinrich Reinhardt, composer.   

1866  Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker) born   

1866  Butch Cassidy, [Robert LeRoy Parker], American desperado (Wild Bunch Passage)   

1867  Sammy Woods, cricket bowler (Aust and Engld Rugby wing-forward)   

1868  Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.   

1868  John Blackwood McEwen, composer.   

1868  Theodorus, [Kasa], emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide.   

1869  Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse).   

1870  Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC   

1872  A Roda Roda, writer.   

1873  Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed)   

1873  Theodore Morse, composer.   

1873  Carlo Coccia, composer, dies at 90.   

1877  A US newspaper, the Fort Benton Record, coins a slogan for the RCMP "They always get their man." Gee I always thought it was a Canadian eh saying.   

1882  Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia   

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1506  Peter faber: French jesuit theologian   

1519  Catherine de' médici: Queen of spain/daughter of henry ii   

1519  De medicis: Queen consort (henry ii of france)   

1545  Elisabeth van valois: French queen of spain/daughter of henri ii   

1547  Elisabeth of valois: Third wife of philip ii of spain   

1570  Guy fawkes: English catholic conspirator   

1573  Christina of holstein-gottorp: Queen consort of sweden   

1584  Albert vi of bavaria: Albert vi of bavaria (d. 1666)   

0799  Paulus diaconus warnafridi: Longobardisch writer,   

0814  Krum of bulgaria: Krum of bulgaria   

1093  Prince vsevolod i of kiev: Prince vsevolod i of kiev (b. 1030)   

1279  Death of Boleslaw the pious: Polish duke   

1517  Tuman bey: Last mamelukken sultan of egypt, hanged   

1612  Sasaki kojirō: Japanese samurai   

1635  Death of Fakhr-al-din ii: Druze prince of lebanon (b. 1572)   

1641  Richard montagu: English clergyman (b. 1577)