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1825  Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, composer   

1827  William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69   

1829  John Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1902.   

1830  Franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50.   

1831  Dutch troops conquer Leuven   

1832  Hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor.   

1833  Chicago is founded   

1833  William Price Sanders, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863.   

1838  Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal.   

1845  Off Point Pelee, Ontario the steamships Kent and London collide in clear weather, with the loss of ten lives   

1848  Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile).   

1848  George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies.   

1849  Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist   

1849  Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Min of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88   

1851  Isaac Singer granted patent for his sewing machine   

1851  1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora   

1853  Jean Louis Nicode, composer   

1854  Alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith   

1856  Anthony Fass patents accordion.   

1857  William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies.   

1859  Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful).   

1861  Skirmish at Texas-rebels are attacked by Apache Indians   

1862  Gen John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX   

1863  inaugural cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area).   

1863  The inaugural cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet for export   

1863  1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)   

1865  William Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies.   

1866  Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, Spanish playwright (Nobel 1922).   

1867  Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton.   

1867  Edith Hamilton, US, writer (Mythology)   

1868  Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21).   

1875  Ettore Panizza, composer.   

1876  Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup   

1876  Off Newport Rhode Island, the US yacht Madeleine beats the Countess Dufferin from Toronto in two straight heats in the 4th America's Cup.   

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1503  Christian iii: King of denmark/norway (1534-59)   

1566  Isabella ce: Infante of spain/governess of the netherlands   

1592  Willem earl of nassau-siegen: Dutch gov (fort emmerik/heusden)   

1604  Tokugawa iemitsu: Japanese shogun   

1620  Pieter cuypers: S neth lawyer   

1626  Giovanni legrenzi: Composer   

1629  Tsar alexei i of russia: Tsar alexei i of russia (d. 1676)   

1644  Georg christoph leuttner: Composer   

0030  Cleopatra vii thea philopator: Cleopatra vii thea philopator (b. 69 bc)   

0875  Death of Louis ii: King of italy/emperor of france,   

1158  Anselmus van havelberg: Brandenburg bshp of havelberg (1129-55),   

1350  Philip vi: King of france,   

1424  Yongle: Emperor of china (b. 1360)   

1484  Death of Sixtus iv: [francesco della rovere], pope (1471-84),   

1546  Francisco de vitoria: Spanish theology/lawyer,   

1577  Death of Thomas smith: English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513)