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1845  The inaugural baseball team is organized   

1848  Pieter Louis Tak, literary (The Chronicle)   

1850  Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England.   

1852  A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated   

1852  Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st dirigible flight   

1853  The inaugural round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt).   

1853  1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt).   

1855  Alexandre Stievenard, composer, dies at 86.   

1856  Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, gov-gen of India, dies.   

1859  Julius Klengel, cellist/composer   

1860  Samuel Rutherford Crockett, novelist   

1862  In this year, Confederate Congress formally adopts confederacy seal.   

1864  Battle of Pilot Knob MO   

1865  James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF.   

1865  Frantiszek Soltyk, composer, dies at 81.   

1869  Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner gold.   

1869  The Black Friday Wall Street panic occurs when financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market.   

1870  Georges Claude, inventor (neon light).   

1872  Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg," premieres in Vienna   

1875  William Walker, composer, dies at 66.   

1877  Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion   

1881  Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch   

1881  Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer, dies at 74.   

1883  National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky   

1884  Dixey, Rice and Gill's musical "Adonis," premieres in NYC.   

1885  5 German warships depart to Zanzibar   

1885  Herman Bouber, Dutch actor/playwright (Sailor's Wives).   

1886  James Burke, NYC, actor (Mystery Theater, Great Guy).   

1889  Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder.   

1890  Pres of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned.   

1890  Alan Herbert, England, journalist/writer (Punch, Helen)   

1892  Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Wandering Jew).   

1892  Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Suriname, dies at 69   

1893  Julia Faye, Richmond VA, actress (10 Commandments, Samson and Delilah).   

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0015  Vitellius: Roman emperor   

1301  Ralph stafford: 1st earl of stafford, english soldier   

1501  Girolamo cardano: Italy, mathematician/astrologer (ars magna-1545)   

1513  Catherine of saxe-lauenburg: Queen of sweden   

1534  Guru ram das: Fourth sikh guru   

1564  William adams: British navigator   

1583  Albrecht eusebius wenzel von wallenstein: German general   

1625  Johan de witt: Statesman/advisor of holland   

0366  Liberius: Italian pope (352-66),   

0768  Pippin iii: The short, king of france,   

0786  Death of Al-hadi: Arabic kalief of islam (185-86),   

0911  Death of Ludwig iii: The child, last carolingian german king (899-911),   

1054  Hermannus contractus: Scholar (b. 1013)   

1118  Robert of knaresborough: Hermit (b. 1160)   

1120  Death of Welf ii: Duke of bavaria (b. 1072)   

1143  Death of Innocent ii: [gregorio de' papareschi], ital pope (1130-43),