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1861  Nathaniel Lyon, US Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43.   

1862  Battle of Nueces River TX.   

1865  Alexander K Glazunov, St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana)   

1866  Transatlantic cable laid.   

1866  Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria   

1867  Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 1867   

1869  O B Brown patents moving picture projector.   

1869  Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet (Symbolic Wounds).   

1874  Herbert Hoover, Former (31st) President of the US is born.   

1874  Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933)   

1875  Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66   

1876  1st phone call between Brantford and Paris, Canada.   

1877  inaugural use of the telephone to dispatch trains. This was at the Caledonia Mine at Glace Bay on the Sydney Mines Railway. One of the owners was Gardiner G. Hubbard who was the father in law of Alexander Graham Bell who installed two telephones to control train movements.   

1877  Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians.   

1877  Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance   

1880  Clarence Cameron White, composer.   

1881  Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder   

1882  Max Kowalski, composer.   

1883  inaugural train reaches Calgary.   

1883  Carlos Lavin, composer.   

1884  In New York City, a 5.5 earthquake caused large cracks in walls at Amityville and Jamaica (intensity VII). The shock was felt strongly at New York City.   

1885  Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)   

1886  Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement   

1886  Eduard Grell, composer, dies at 85.   

1887  Excursion train crashes killing 101 in Chatsworth, Illinois   

1887  Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)   

1888  NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record   

1888  Johanna E F G (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actress (Saint Joan)   

1889  Dan Rylands patents screw cap.   

1889  Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer   

1891  Henry O'Neill, Orange NJ, actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble)   

1893  Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act.   

1893  Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act   

1893  Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue NY, composer (Good Night Harvard).   

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1267  King james ii of aragon: King james ii of aragon (d. 1327)   

1296  John the blind: King of bohemia/count of luxembourg   

1360  Francesco zabarella: Italian jurist   

1397  Albert ii of germany: Holy roman emperor   

1489  Jacob sturm von sturmeck: German statesman and reformer   

1520  Madeleine de valois: Wife of james v of scotland   

1556  Philipp nicolai: Germany, theologist/poet/composer   

1560  Hieronymus praetorius: Composer   

0258  Death of Saint lawrence: Martyr   

0794  Death of Fastrada: 3rd wife of french king charles the great,   

0955  Death of Conrad the red: Duke of lotharingen,   

1002  Al-mansur: Arabic general strategist/regent of cordoba,   

1250  Death of Erik iv plovpenning: King of denmark, murdered   

1535  Death of Ippolito de' medici: Ruler of florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)   

1589  Death of Maarten schenck nideggen: Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49   

1628  Hans jonsson: Swedish fleet commander, drowned