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1870  Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48   

1871  Communards revolt in Paris France.   

1871  Communards revolt in Paris   

1872  Frank Hoyt Losey, composer   

1874  Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights   

1875  Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43   

1876  F Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65.   

1877  President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC.   

1877  President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC.   

1877  Clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)   

1881  Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG).   

1881  Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963).   

1882  Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer.   

1886  Edward Everett Horton, Bkln NY, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show).   

1886  Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91   

1888  Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor.   

1889  F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands   

1889  William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66   

1890  inaugural US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts).   

1890  Kaiser Wilhelm forces Bismarck to resign as prime minister   

1890  1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts).   

1890  Gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education   

1891  Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone.   

1892  Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup).   

1892  Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup).   

1892  Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II)   

1893  Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth).   

1895  200 blacks leave Savannah GA for Liberia.   

1895  200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia.   

1897  Betty Compson, actress (Big City, Docks Of New York)   

1898  Otto Jochum, composer   

1899  Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering.   

1899  Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin   

1899  Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76   

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1380  Liduina van schiedam: Dutch "christ's bride"/saint   

1395  John holland: 2nd duke of exeter, english military leader   

1496  Mary tudor: Daughter of henry vii of england and queen consort of louis xii of france   

1548  Cornelis ketel: Dutch portrait painter/poet   

1556  Francois-hercule de valois: French duke of anjou/brabant   

1578  Adam elsheimer: German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized   

1590  Manuel de faria e sousa: Portuguese historian and poet   

1602  Jacques de billy: French mathematician   

0235  Death of Marcus aurelius alexander: Syrian emperor of rome (222-235), murdered   

0978  Death of Edward: The martyr, king of anglo-saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15   

1227  Death of Honorius iii: [cencio savelli], pope (1216-27),   

1314  Death of Jacques de molay: The last grand master of order of knights,   

1493  John of lannoy: Flemish governor/viceroy of neth/zealand,   

1582  Death of Jean jaurequi: Basque murderer of willem of orange, lynched   

1583  King magnus of livonia: King magnus of livonia (b. 1540)   

1584  Ivan iv: The terrible, russian tsar (1547-84),