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1746 Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Neth armies 
1747 Marian Paradeiser, composer
1758 Wilhelm Olbers, discovered asteroids (Pallas and Vesta)
1768 Adriaan van den Ende, Dutch vicar/educationalist
1776 Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, New York. Although defeated, the American flotilla delayed the British advance and caused it to fall back into winter quarters
1776 Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British.
1779 Casimir Pulaski, General, dies
1782 Steen Steensen Blicher, Denmk, poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw)
1788 Simon Sechter, composer.
1797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands
1797 Battle at Kamperduin: English fleet destroys Bataafse
1803 Albartus Telting, Frisian poet (Frisianch Jierboeckjen)
1806 Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58)
1809 Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1809 Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis and Clark Expedition), commits suicide at 35
1811 The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation
1811 The Juliana, 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation
1812 Jurriaan F de Frederici, Dutch governor-gen (Suriname), dies at 60.
1815 Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican representative of the people.
1820 Alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1821 Sir George Williams, Founder of the YMCA is born
1821 Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer
1824 Marquis de Lafayette visits the Washington Navy Yard during his year long tour of America. He returned to the yard the next day, October 12, to continue his visit
1825 C F Meyer, writer
1835 Hunter Holmes McGuire, Med Director (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1837 Samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71
1839 Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet, dies at 88.
1841 Freidrich Hegar, composer.
1844 Henry John Heinz, American food manufacturer is born
1844 Henry John Heinz, founded prepared-foods company (57 varieties)
1850 Louisa Maria, queen of Belgium (1832-50)/wife of Leopold I, dies at 38.
1852 The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1861 Battle of Dumfries, VA (Quantico Creek).
1863 Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee
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