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1789  Friedrich Fesca, composer   

1795  Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general (10 day campaign).   

1797  Battle of Cape St Vincent   

1797  Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway)   

1799  inaugural US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania   

1799  1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania.   

1800  Frederik W Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer.   

1803  John Augustus Sutter, Swiss/US colonist (New Helvetia Ca, Sutter Mill).   

1804  New Jersey is recorded as becoming last northern state to abolish slavery.   

1805  Harmony Society is officially formed.   

1807  Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer.   

1809  Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper).   

1811  Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)   

1812  Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler (Tiffany).   

1817  Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter.   

1818  Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies at 69   

1819  Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor (typewriter)   

1820  Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette   

1820  Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63.   

1821  Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet   

1822  Theodor Uhlig, composer   

1823  Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton   

1826  George J Stoney, Irish physicist.   

1828  Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary)   

1829  Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Roland Blake)   

1831  Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies.   

1832  Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer, dies at 85   

1834  William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer.   

1835  Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911   

1835  Henry Hunt, British politican, dies.   

1841  Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53   

1842  Postage stamps with adhesive on the back are sold for the inaugural time at the New York City post office.   

1842  1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC.   

1844  Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, Brit premier (1801-04), dies at 86   

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1368  Sigismund: Nornberg germany, holy roman emperor (1410-37)   

1458  Ivan the young: Ruler of tver   

1471  Piero di lorenzo de' medici: Ruler of florence   

1483  Babur: Founder of mughal dynasty in india (1526-30   

1497  Philipp melanchthon: German protestant   

1519  Pedro menendez de aviles: Explorer (found st augustine florida)   

1524  Charles de guise: Archbishop/cardinal of reims   

1557  Alfonso fontanelli: Composer   

1043  Gisela: Wife of rc-german emperor conrad ii the salier,   

1145  Lucius ii: [gherardo caccianemici], italian pope (1144-45),   

1152  Death of Konrad iii: Roman-german king (1138-1152),   

1503  Death of Henry deane: Archbishop of canterbury (1501-03),   

1568  Hendrik van brederode: Dutch noble (compromise of nobles),   

1580  Cunerus petri: Dutch theologist/bishop of leeuwarden,   

1597  Pieter j kies: Dutch mayor of haarlem (1572-73),   

1600  Death of Jose the acosta: Spanish missionary (peru),