Page 2: Historical Events In October - 03

1761  Dirk earl van Hogendorp, general/Dutch minister of War [OS]   

1778  Capt Cook anchors at Alaska   

1789  Washington proclaims the inaugural national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26.   

1789  Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26.   

1789  Francis Hoyt Gregory, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1866   

1792  Cipriani Potter, composer.   

1795  Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed   

1800  George Bancroft, historian (Hall of Fame).   

1803  John Gorrie, inventor (cold-air process of refrigeration).   

1804  Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan   

1807  Heinrich Panofka, composer.   

1814  Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov, Russian poet/writer (Demon and other poems).   

1820  Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74.   

1826  Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Labyrinth), dies.   

1828  Woldemar Bargiel, composer.   

1828  Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer, dies at 77   

1833  Composer Hector Berlioz marries actress Harriet Smithson   

1834  Vilem Blodek, composer.   

1835  Staedtler Company was founded by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremburg, Germany.   

1844  Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine".   

1849  American author Edgar Allan Poe is are discovered delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.   

1853  Andre Georges Louis Onslow, composer, dies at 69   

1854  William Crawford Gorgas, US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever.   

1859  Elenora Duse, Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler)   

1860  Annie EF Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre, Dublin)   

1862  Battle of Corinth, Miss.   

1862  -10] Battle of Corinth, Mississippi   

1862  John Briggs, cricketer (mighty England all-rounder late 19th century)   

1862  Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47.   

1863  Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.   

1865  Johannes IJWJ Eilerts de Haan, Dutch sea officer (Lucie R, Suriname).   

1866  Learmont Drysdale, composer   

1867  Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator   

1871  Stijn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard)   

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1573  Entonius walaeus: Dutch calvinist theologist   

1605  Li tzu-ch'eng: Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last ming emperor   

1631  Sebastian anton scherer: Composer   

1647  Johannes voet: Dutch lawyer   

1647  John foot: Lawyer   

1713  Antoine dauvergne: Composer   

1716  Giovanni battista beccaria: Italian physicist   

1720  Johann p uz: German poet (lyrische poem)   

0695  "black ewald": Helper of willibrord, murdered   

1226  Saint francis of assisi: Saint francis of assisi (b. 1181)   

1283  Dafydd ap gruffyd: Last monarch of gwynnedd (north-wales),   

1369  Margarete maultasch: Countess of tyrol (b. 1318)   

1564  Christophorus fabritius: [christoffel smit], calvinist vicar, burned   

1568  Elisabeth van valois: French queen of spain,   

1596  Death of Florent chrestien: French writer (b. 1541)   

1611  Death of Charles of lorraine: Duke of mayenne, french military leader (b. 1554)