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1860  Annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)   

1860  Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies   

1864  Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill VA.   

1865  Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47   

1867  Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit)   

1868  In Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami   

1868  Quakes kill 25000 and leads to $300 million damages (Peru and Ecuador)   

1868  Earthquakes kill 25000 and leads to $300 million damages (Peru and Ecuador).   

1870  Armed tug Palos is recorded as becoming inaugural U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal.   

1871  Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party).   

1876  Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified   

1878  Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer   

1879  John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun).   

1881  Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch   

1881  Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author   

1885  BHP incorporated in Australia as a business.   

1886  John A. MacDonald drives last spike of the Esquimault-Naniamo railway in British Columbia.   

1886  Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter.   

1886  Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62.   

1888  John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)   

1889  William Gray patents coin-operated telephone.   

1890  [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia   

1892  Baltimore Afro-American forms   

1892  US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore.   

1894  Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director.   

1895  Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz).   

1895  Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies   

1896  Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor   

1896  John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67.   

1897  Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63.   

1898  US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war   

1898  Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)   

1899  Alfred Hitchcock born in London.   

1899  Alfred Hitchcock, English born film director is born   

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0582  Arnulf of metz: French bishop and saint   

1311  King alfonso xi of castile and leon: King alfonso xi of castile and leon (d. 1350)   

1422  William caxton: 1st english printer (histories of troy)   

1584  Theophilus howard: 2nd earl of suffolk, english politician   

1617  Johann a quenstedt: German lutherian theologist   

1625  Rasmus bartholin: Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist   

1655  Johann christoph denner: Inventor (clarinet)   

1662  Charles seymour: 6th duke of somerset, english politician   

0586  Radegund: Wife of clotaire i   

0587  Radegundis: Daughter of thurings king berthar/saint,   

0662  Death of Maximus confessor: Greek theologist/crusader,   

0900  Zwentibold: King of lutherans (895-900),   

1134  Death of Irene [pirisca]: Byzantine empress,   

1191  Death of Philips van heinsberg: Archbishop of cologne,   

1278  Death of Daikaku: Zen teacher rinzai line/head of kenchoji,   

1382  Death of Eleanor of aragon: Wife of john i of castile (b. 1358)