Page 3: Historical Events In January - 02

1861  On this day in history colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia   

1861  SC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor on January - 02.   

1861  On January - 02 sC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor   

1861  Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12) on this day in history.   

1861  Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65 on January - 02.   

1863  On January - 02 battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends   

1863  On January - 02 lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)   

1863  Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 35 on this day in history.   

1870  Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins on January - 02.   

1870  On January - 02 ernst Barlach, writer   

1871  King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25 on this day in history.   

1872  Canada and the US first share telegraphed weather reports on January - 02.   

1873  Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics) on this day in history.   

1877  On this day in history slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)   

1879  On January - 02 british battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die   

1879  On January - 02 first Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG   

1879  On this day in history 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG   

1879  On this day in history johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces)   

1880  On this day in history louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer   

1881  On this day in history frederick Varley painter, born at Sheffield England; he was a founding member of Canada's "Group of Seven" artists   

1881  On this day in history camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres   

1882  Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust on this day in history.   

1884  Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame) on January - 02.   

1885  General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum on January - 02.   

1885  On January - 02 gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum   

1885  Johannes Ringers, Dutch water engineer (dikes) on this day in history.   

1886  Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet (In New-York) on January - 02.   

1889  Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine) on this day in history.   

1890  Alice Sanger becomes first female White House staffer on this day in history.   

1890  Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny on this day in history.   

1890  On this day in history alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer   

1892  Lura Anson, Nebraska, entertainer on January - 02.   

1892  On this day in history george B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90   

1893  The first US commemoratives &1st US stamp to picture a woman issued on this day in history.   

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1642  On January - 02 birth of mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey)   

1647  Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676) was born on January - 02.   

1699  Osman III, sultan (Turkey) was born on this day in history.   

1713  On this day in history birth of marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)   

1719  On January - 02 birth of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)   

1727  On January - 02 birth of james Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec)   

1728  Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium was born on this day in history.   

1732  Franz Xaver Brixi, composer was born on this day in history.   

0017  Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies on this day in history.   

1512  Death of Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460) on January - 02.   

1514  On this day in history death of william Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)   

1557  Death of Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494) on January - 02.   

1685  Death of Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603) on this day in history.   

1694  Death of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651) on this day in history.   

1726  Domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37 on this day in history.   

1740  On January - 02 johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63