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1841  Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, are discovered the awakening.   

1857  Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited.   

1859  "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard   

1859  "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard   

1860  Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry   

1861  President Abe Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.   

1861  President Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports   

1861  West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US   

1861  President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus   

1861  Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer   

1863  Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL   

1865  1450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up.   

1865  Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard   

1865  Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered.   

1865  Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, results in the deaths of up to 2000   

1865  Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars).   

1867  Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris)   

1869  William Victor Harris, composer   

1870  Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

1871  Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer.   

1871  Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59   

1872  Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70.   

1873  Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction).   

1874  White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms.   

1875  Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)   

1877  Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris)   

1881  Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad   

1881  Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76.   

1882  Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies.   

1883  Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter   

1884  Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets).   

1890  French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan.   

1891  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer.   

1892  Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons).   

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1410  John van lannoy: Flemish governor of holland/zealand/west frisia   

1495  Suleiman the magnificent: Sultan of the ottoman empire   

1623  Johann adam reincken: Composer   

1650  Charlotte amalie of hesse-kassel (or hesse-cassel): Queen of denmark and norway   

1701  Charles emanuel i: King of sardinia   

1707  John burman: Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens   

1718  Thomas lewis: Irish-born virginia settler   

1724  Ferdinand philipp joseph lobkowitz: Composer   

0630  Death of King ardashir iii of persia: King ardashir iii of persia   

1076  Willem: Bishop of utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl floris i,   

1124  Death of Alexander i: King of scotland (1107-24),   

1404  Death of Philip: The stout, duke of burgundy,   

1521  Death of Ferdinand magellan: World traveler, killed by filipino natives at 50   

1599  Maeda toshiie: Japanese general (b. 1538)   

1605  Leo xi: [alessandro o de' medici], italian pope (1605),   

1613  Death of Robert abercromby: Scottish jesuit (b. 1532)