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Monday, 12 October 2026
1823 Ernest Reyer, composer. 
1824 House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams, Jackson, WH Crawford and H Clay - Adams eventually declared president.
1824 House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams
1825 Aleksandr I P Romanov, czar of Russia (1801-25), dies at 47
1826 William Mahone, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895.
1831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
1832 Archibald Gracie Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864.
1835 Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales
1835 Micah Jenkins, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864.
1838 Van Diemen's Land gets its inaugural library to boost morale.
1840 Plague in Dalmatia
1840 Smallpox in South Africa.
1842 Midshipman Philip Spencer, son of Secretary of War John C. Spencer, is hanged for mutiny from the yardarm of the U.S.S. Somers, a small brig of war at sea in West Indian waters. He was convicted at a court-martial held on the ship of conspiring to organize a mutiny, murder the officers, and convert the captured ship into a pirate vessel.
1842 Philip Spencer, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged
1843 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens
1844 Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain/Ireland
1846 Third cholera pandemic in Russia killing 1 million+ people.
1847 Agathe Grondahl, composer.
1847 Typhus epidemic of 1847 in Canada killing 20000+ people.
1847 Influenza in Worldwide
1850 Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller, composer.
1852 Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands
1854 Armed Diggers prepare for confrontation with troops on Eureka Hill, Victcoria.
1864 Fire in Brisbane destroys city area bounded by Queen, George, Elizabeth and Albert streets
1864 Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, TN to Saltville, VA
1865 Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76
1868 John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war.
1871 Archie MacLaren, cricketer (424 Lancashire v Somerset 1895)
1873 Charles JM Ruys de Beerenbrouck, premier of Neth (1918-25, 29-33)
1874 Dominicus Johner, composer.
1876 Johanna W "Mina" Bakker, Dutch actress (Boefje)
1878 inaugural White House telephone installed.
1878 1st White House telephone installed.
1878 Arthur B Spingarn, US NAACP-chairman (1940-65)
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