This day in History - October 4

394 Historic Events for October 4
1830 Event Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1830 Death Hans DL earl Yorck von Wartenburg, gov-gen of E-Prussia, dies at 71
1832 Birth William Griggs, inventor (photo chromo lithography)
1834 Event Franz Grillparzer's "Der Traum ein Leben," premieres in Vienna
1836 Birth Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue)
1838 Death Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer, dies at 79
1840 Birth Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer
1841 Birth Stephen Albert Emery, composer
1848 Death Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82
1850 Birth John W McGraw, (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97)
1853 Birth Armando Palacio Vald‚s, Spanish writer: La hermana San Sulpicio
1854 Event Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair
1857 Birth Henry Schoenfeld, composer
1859 Death Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57
1859 Birth Henryk Pachulski, composer
1860 Birth Sidney Paget, British illustrator (Sherlock Holmes)
1861 Birth Joao Marcellino Arroyo, composer
1861 Birth Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West
1862 Event Battle of Corinth ends
1862 Death William Duncan Smith, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 36
1863 Death Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam, dies at 69
1864 Event National black convention meets (Syracuse NY)
1864 Event New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms
1865 Birth Max Halbe, writer
1865 Birth Friedrich Lienhard, German writer (Lieder eines Els„ssers)