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1865  Heinrich Rubens, German physicist.   

1866  Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride), premieres.   

1867  Alaska purchased from Russia for 7.2 million dollars, by America   

1867  US buys Alaska from Russia for $7200000 (2 cents an acre.   

1870  15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race.   

1870  Texas is recorded as becoming last confederate state readmitted to Union   

1871  W F A A Louisa/Lovisa, queen of Sweden/Norway, dies at 42   

1872  Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer.   

1872  Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer, dies at 76   

1873  Benedict Augustin Morel, psychologist (dementia praecox), dies at 63   

1875  Marie Moke Pleyel, composer, dies at 63   

1876  Clifford Whittingham Beers, US, mental hygiene pioneer.   

1879  David van der Kellen, Dutch coin engraver, dies at 74   

1880  Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright is born   

1880  Sean O'Casey, Ireland, playwright (Playboy of the Western World).   

1882  Melanie Klein, Austrian/British psycho analysis.   

1883  Jo Davidson, US, sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman)   

1884  Hans Hampel, composer, dies at 61.   

1885  Cree chief Poundmaker [Pitikwahanapiwiyin] 1826-1886 attacks and surrounds Battleford with 200 warriors; local settlers forced to seek shelter in NWMP barracks for a month   

1885  Russian occupation of Penjdeh, Afghanistan, provokes crisis in Anglo-Russian relations.   

1885  The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire   

1886  Stanislaw Lesniewski, Poland, logician/mathematician.   

1887  Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great)   

1888  Anna Q Nilsson, Sweden, actress (Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin).   

1889  John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers, NY).   

1891  Jan B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov)   

1892  Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian.   

1893  Thomas F Bayard is recorded as becoming inaugural US ambassador in Great Britain.   

1893  Thomas F Bayard is recorded as becoming 1st US ambassador in Great Britain   

1894  Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin).   

1895  British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge   

1895  Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant)   

1898  Heinz Risse, writer   

1899  Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM)   

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1135  Maimonedes: Philosopher   

1222  Nichiren: Japan, buddhist priest/saint   

1326  Ivan ii of russia: Grand duke of muscovy   

1432  Mehmed ii: Ottoman sultan   

1640  John trenchard: English politician   

1672  Peter i "the great" romanov: Great tsar of russia (1682-1725)   

1674  Jethro tull: Agricultural writer (basildon), baptised   

1681  Pieter snyers: Flemish painter/engraver   

0988  Arnulf ii: Count of flanders (965-988),   

1202  Death of Joachim van fiore: Italian religious founder (joachimism),   

1486  Thomas bourchier: Archbishop of canterbury   

1526  Death of Konrad mutian: German humanist (b. 1471)   

1540  Death of Matthäus lang von wellenburg: German statesman and archbishop of salzburg (b. 1469)   

1547  Death of Francois i of valois-angouleme: King of france (1515-47),   

1559  Death of Adam ries: German mathematician (b. 1492)   

1587  Ralph sadler: English statesman (b. 1507)