Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Significance of February 01 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1867  Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.   

1867  Measles in Australia.   

1867  Plague in Iraq.   

1869  Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor (Holland Tooneelgezelschap).   

1869  Frederik W Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68.   

1870  Founding of the Quebec Provincial Police force.   

1870  Smallpox in Germany   

1871  Jefferson Long of Georgia is inaugural black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates).   

1871  Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates)   

1871  Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer, dies at 51.   

1872  Paul Fort, French poet is born   

1872  Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose   

1873  Clara Butt, Southwick Sussex, contralto (Country of Hope and Glory).   

1873  Matthew Maury, hydrographer, dies.   

1874  Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist   

1875  Eddie Pola, composer (Lullabye of Broadway).   

1875  William Sterndale Bennett, composer, dies at 58   

1875  Fiji Measles outbreak in Fiji killing 40000 people   

1877  Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer.   

1877  Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer, dies at 71.   

1877  Plague in Russian Empire.   

1878  Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate   

1878  George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85   

1879  Sydney Baynes, composer.   

1880  The inaugural edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published   

1880  Antonio Guarnieri, composer.   

1881  US Assay Office in St Louis MO authorized   

1881  US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized   

1881  Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer.   

1882  Louis St Laurent, Compton Quebec, (L) 12th Canadian PM (1948-57).   

1883  French Lieutenant-Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger   

1883  French lt-col Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger.   

1883  Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV).   

1883  Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies.   

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