Page 3: Historical Events In August - 05

1861  On August - 05 uS levies its first Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)   

1861  On this day in history enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years   

1862  On this day in history battle of Baton Rouge, LA   

1862  Thomas Williams, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47 on this day in history.   

1863  Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer, dies at 53 on August - 05.   

1864  On this day in history spectrum of a comet observed for first time, by Giovanni Donati   

1864  On this day in history battle of Mobile Bay Al-Farragut is given rank of vice-admiral   

1864  Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer on August - 05.   

1864  Griffin A Stedman, Union-brig-gen (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26 on this day in history.   

1866  Alfred Holy, composer on this day in history.   

1868  Oskar Merikanto, composer on this day in history.   

1874  Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in England on this day in history.   

1876  Mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian (Woman as a Force in History) on this day in history.   

1877  On this day in history henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo   

1879  First game of night football at Melbourne Cricket Ground, under gas-lights on August - 05.   

1880  On this day in history gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright (Black Girls Burden)   

1882  On August - 05 authorizing of first steel warships, beginning of the modern Navy in US   

1882  On this day in history martial law is imposed in Japan.   

1882  On this day in history joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I)   

1884  Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC) on this day in history.   

1886  On August - 05 oscar Espla, composer   

1887  Reginald Owen, Wheathampstead Engld, actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes) on this day in history.   

1888  Victor Francen, Belgium, actor (J'Acusse, San Antonio) on this day in history.   

1889  Conrad P Aiken, US, poet/writer (Ushant/Conversation) on this day in history.   

1889  Willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1890  On this day in history british & French accord to divide African colonization   

1890  Erich Kleiber, Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46) on August - 05.   

1891  1st travelers checks issued (American Express) on August - 05.   

1891  Donald Kerr, Eagle Grove IA, actor (Carnival Lady, Devil Bat) on this day in history.   

1891  Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1895  On this day in history friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies   

1899  On this day in history conrad Aiken, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Selected Poems)   

1900  On this day in history bodi Rapp, [Johanna PAC Goetmakers], Dutch mezzo-soprano/teacher   

1900  James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80 on August - 05.   

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1301  Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330) was born on August - 05.   

1397  On this day in history birth of guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)   

1461  On August - 05 birth of alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1506)   

1540  Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating was born on August - 05.   

1604  John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized was born on this day in history.   

1607  On this day in history birth of philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer   

1623  Antonio Cesti, composer was born on August - 05.   

1624  William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America was born on August - 05.   

0882  On this day in history death of king Louis III of France (b. 863)   

1063  Death of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd on August - 05.   

1157  Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies on this day in history.   

1364  Death of Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313) on this day in history.   

1572  Death of Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534) on August - 05.   

1579  Death of Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504) on this day in history.   

1610  Death of Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile on this day in history.   

1644  On this day in history j Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61