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  Battle of Baton Rouge, LA on this day in history.   

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  Spectrum of a comet observed for first time, by Giovanni Donati on this day in history.   

1864  Battle of Mobile Bay Al-Farragut is given rank of vice-admiral on August - 05.   

1864  Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer on this day in history.   

1864  On August - 05 griffin A Stedman, Union-brig-gen (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26   

1866  On August - 05 alfred Holy, composer   

1868  Oskar Merikanto, composer on August - 05.   

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

1876  On August - 05 mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian (Woman as a Force in History)   

1877  On August - 05 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 this day in history 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  Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I) on this day in history.   

1884  On August - 05 cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)   

1886  Oscar Espla, composer on August - 05.   

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  On this day in history conrad P Aiken, US, poet/writer (Ushant/Conversation)   

1889  On August - 05 willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner, dies at 80   

1890  On August - 05 british & French accord to divide African colonization   

1890  Erich Kleiber, Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46) on this day in history.   

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

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

1891  On this day in history henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73   

1895  On August - 05 friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies   

1899  On August - 05 conrad Aiken, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Selected Poems)   

1900  Bodi Rapp, [Johanna PAC Goetmakers], Dutch mezzo-soprano/teacher on August - 05.   

1900  James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

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1301  On this day in history birth of edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)   

1397  Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474) was born on this day in history.   

1461  Alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1506) was born on this day in history.   

1540  Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating was born on this day in history.   

1604  John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized was born on August - 05.   

1607  Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer was born on August - 05.   

1623  Antonio Cesti, composer was born on this day in history.   

1624  On this day in history birth of william, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America   

0882  Death of King Louis III of France (b. 863) on this day in history.   

1063  Death of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd on this day in history.   

1157  Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies on August - 05.   

1364  Death of Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313) on August - 05.   

1572  On this day in history death of isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534)   

1579  Death of Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504) on August - 05.   

1610  On August - 05 death of alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile   

1644  J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61 on August - 05.