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1861  1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South claims.   

1861  Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, dies in battle at 44   

1863  C[harles] Aubrey Smith, London England, actor (Prisoner of Zenda).   

1864  Frances Folsom Cleveland, 1st lady (1885-89, 93-97).   

1865  In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and results in the deaths of Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the inaugural true western showdown.   

1865  Robert Kahn, composer   

1866  Cholera epidemic results in the deaths of hundreds in London.   

1867  City Gardens on Folsom opens   

1870  Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42.   

1873  Jesse James and James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa)   

1877  -27] US army breaks railroad strike.   

1880  Compressed air accident results in the deaths of 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY League merge to form National Association of Colored Woman   

1880  Compressed air accident results in the deaths of 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY   

1884  1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's   

1885  Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist (Dinner at Antoine)   

1888  Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade), dies at 53   

1891  Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor, dies at 51   

1892  Anton Schnack, German writer/poet.   

1893  Hans Fallada, writer   

1895  H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket Test captain (1927-31)   

1896  National Federation of Afro-American Women and Colored Women's.   

1897  Tate Gallery opens in England.   

1898  Spain cedes Guam to US   

1898  Ernest Willem Mulder, composer   

1899  Ernest Hemmingway, US novelist and Nobel prize winner is born   

1899  Ernest Hemmingway, Oak Park, for whom the bell tolled... (Nobel 1954)   

1900  Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite   

1901  Allyn Joslyn, Milford Pa, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society).   

1903  Theodore Karyotakis, composer   

1904  Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH   

1904  After 13 years, the 4607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed   

1905  Diana Trilling, writer.   

1906  Daniel Ayala Perez, composer   

1907  Ross Alexander, Brooklyn NY, actor (Boulder Dam, Capt Blood)   

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0810  Imam bukhari: Islamic scholar   

1515  St philippus nerius: [philippo neri], italian merchant/priest   

1620  Jean picard: French astronomer   

1664  Matthew prior: English poet   

1676  Anthony collins: English philosopher (a discourse on free-thinking)   

1693  Thomas pelham-holles 1st duke of newcastle: Engl minister of finance   

1706  Pierre lyonet: Zoologist/cryptologist (anatomy of wilgehoutrups)   

1710  Paul möhring: German physician   

1160  Peterus lombardus: Italian theologist/bishop of paris,   

1425  Death of Manuel paleologus: Byzantine emperor (1391-1425)/writer,   

1540  Death of John i zapolyai: Prince of transsylvania/king of hungary,   

1544  René of chalon [renatus of nassau]: Prince of orange, slain in battle   

1683  Death of Lord william russell: English plotter against charles ii, beheaded   

1688  Death of James butler: 1st duke of ormonde, english statesman and soldier (b. 1610)   

1717  Niccolo amenta: Italian poet (la gostanza),   

1782  Death of Placidus cajetan von camerloher: Composer,