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Monday, 05 January 2026
1815 On December - 22 johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian 
1815 On this day in history jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards
1819 Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor on this day in history.
1820 The 1820 Radicals, sentenced to transportation to Australia, set sail on the convict ship Speke. Only one, Andrew White, returned when pardoned to Scotland on this day in history.
1821 On this day in history giovanni Bottesini, composer
1826 James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901) on this day in history.
1828 Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies on this day in history.
1830 On this day in history justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope)
1831 On this day in history mark Rutherford, writer
1832 On this day in history hMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1832 On December - 22 edward Hatch, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1832 On December - 22 ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72
1842 Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet on this day in history.
1844 On December - 22 izydor Lotto, composer
1845 The first voice synthesizer, later known as P.T. Barnum's Euphonium, was demonstrated to the public in Philadelphia on this day in 1845 on this day in history.
1846 Andreas Hallen, composer on this day in history.
1849 Writer (Crime and Punishmen)Fyodor Dostoevsky is led before a firing squad and prepared for execution. He had been convicted and sentenced to death on November 16 for allegedly taking part in reprieved and sent into exile on this day in history.
1849 On December - 22 the execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second.
1849 Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism) on this day in history.
1851 On December - 22 the first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
1853 Maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor on December - 22.
1856 Frank Kellogg, Sec of State (1925-29), try to outlaw war (Nobel 1929) on December - 22.
1857 On this day in history george [Robert] Gissing, England, novelist
1858 On this day in history the birth of Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer
1859 On December - 22 in Winnipeg Manitoba the Nor'Wester newspaper is first published on the Canadian Prairies
1859 Cecil [James] Sharp, London England, folk musician on this day in history.
1861 On this day in history sara Jeannette Duncan, journalist, novelist, was born at Brantford, Ontario, she joined the Toronto Globe in 1886-87, as its first female full time journalist
1861 Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology) on this day in history.
1862 -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY on this day in history.
1862 Connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/manager (Phila A's 1900-1950) on December - 22.
1863 Ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter on December - 22.
1863 Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36 on this day in history.
1864 HMS Bombay at Montevideo lost to fire off Montevideo, with the loss of nearly a hundred lives on this day in history.
1866 Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer on December - 22.
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