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1762 Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess 
1763 English journalist John Wilkes injured at duel.
1764 Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
1766 Rodolphe Kreitzer, France, composer/virtuoso violinist (Paris Conserv)
1766 Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, dies at 81
1771 West Indian Company and Amsterdam divide up Suriname.
1773 John Hawkesworth, English writer
1775 Marian Paradeiser, composer, dies at 28.
1776 Hessians capture Fort Washington, Manhattan
1776 1st gun salute
1780 Robert Archibald Smith, composer.
1793 Francis Danby, Irish painter
1797 Frederik Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97), dies at 53.
1798 Kentucky is recorded as becoming inaugural state to nullify an act of Congress.
1798 Kentucky is recorded as becoming 1st state to nullify an act of Congress
1801 The New York Post newspaper is founded.
1801 1st edition of New York Evening Post.
1805 Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French.
1807 Francois Hainl, composer.
1808 Mustapha IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies at 29
1810 Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer
1822 Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891.
1824 NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
1827 James Southerton, cricketer (Test debut in the 1st ever Test at 49)
1829 Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer [OS].
1831 Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51
1835 Charles Darwins voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society.
1835 Elliott Warren Rice, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1835 Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48.
1840 Frederick Scotson Clark, composer.
1841 N.E. Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver
1841 Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
1849 A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1854 Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician.
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