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Thursday, 05 February 2026
1791 Bank of US opens 
1792 In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn.
1792 Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter.
1800 Washington DC established as capital of US
1805 Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co and Wells Fargo and Co).
1806 Stand Watie, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1871.
1812 French invasion of Russia comes to an end
1812 John Malchair, composer, dies at 82.
1818 Paul Octave Hebert, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1821 Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist (Madame Bovary)
1822 Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US
1830 Joseph Orville Shelby, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1832 Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (liberal).
1833 Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica)
1835 Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer.
1836 Giuseppe Farinelli, composer, dies at 67
1838 Sherburne W Burnham, US, astronomer (binary stars)
1843 Willem I Frederik, King of Netherlands (1814-40), dies at 71
1848 William Vanderbilt, yachtsman (donated Vanderbilt Cup).
1858 1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent and 20 cent).
1859 inaugural train operated over the Victoria Railway Bridge, Montreal. The inaugural passenger train crossed the structure on December 17, 1859 and it was formally opened by the Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII, on August 25, 1860. The original structure was a single-track iron tubular bridge. The tube, when inaugural constructed, was entirely enclosed and there were ventilation problems. Later a slit 20" wide was cut in the tube the full length of the bridge to permit the emission of smoke
1859 Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners).
1862 Confederate torpedo (mine) sinks USS Cairo in Yazoo River
1862 Battle of Dumfries, VA.
1863 Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter is born.
1863 Edvard Munch, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream).
1866 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913)
1870 Joseph Rainey (SC) became inaugural black sworn into House of Reps.
1870 Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
1871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum.
1872 Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72.
1874 Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Alastalon salissa).
1875 Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian
1877 Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48.
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