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1766  Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac).   

1769  Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington.   

1773  Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director.   

1776  Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84.   

1791  Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)   

1792  "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle   

1792  "La Marseillaise", which later is recorded as becoming the French national anthem, composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle.   

1796  K L Immermann, writer   

1800  Library of Congress established with $5000 allocation.   

1800  Library of Congress establishes with $5000 allocation   

1801  1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"   

1804  Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)   

1807  Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862.   

1814  Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire   

1815  Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers)   

1822  Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1823  Eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique," premieres in Paris.   

1824  Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger   

1824  Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71.   

1827  Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82.   

1828  Robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899   

1829  George Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881   

1833  Jacob Ebert of Cadiz, OH and George Dulty of Wheeling, WV got together to patent the soda fountain   

1833  Patent granted for inaugural soda fountain.   

1833  Jacob Evert and George Dulty patent soda fountain.   

1836  Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist.   

1837  Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz).   

1845  Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus and Epimetheus; Nobel 1919).   

1848  Francois van Campenhout, Belgian composer (Brabanconne), dies at 69.   

1849  Joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)   

1850  Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70   

1851  Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria).   

1854  Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"   

1855  Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer, dies at 75.   

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1533  William i of orange: William i of orange (d. 1584)   

1538  Gugliemo gonzaga: Composer   

1581  Vincent de paul: French saint   

1594  Benedikt lechler: Composer   

1620  John graunt: Statistician, founder of science of demography   

1660  Cornelis dusart: Dutch painter/engraver   

1670  Christian ludwig boxberg: Composer   

1706  Giovanni battista martini: Composer   

0624  Death of Mellitus: Third archbishop of canterbury   

0709  Wilfried: Bishop of york,   

0729  Death of Egbert[us]: English bishop/saint,   

1077  Geza i: King of hungary (1074-7),   

1185  Death of Antoku taira: Emperor of japan (1180-85), drowns   

1338  Death of Marquis theodore i of montferrat: Marquis theodore i of montferrat (b. 1291)   

1530  Death of Jacopo sannazaro: Italian poet (de partu virginis),   

1617  Death of Carlo concino: French marquis of ancre/state advisor, murdered