354 Historic Events for November 16
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| 1822 |
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Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
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| 1824 |
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NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
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| 1827 |
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James Southerton, cricketer (Test debut in the 1st ever Test at 49)
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| 1829 |
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Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer [OS]
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| 1831 |
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Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51
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| 1835 |
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Charles Darwins voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
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| 1835 |
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Elliott Warren Rice, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
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| 1835 |
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Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48
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| 1840 |
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Frederick Scotson Clark, composer
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| 1841 |
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Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
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| 1841 |
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N E Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver
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| 1854 |
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Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician
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| 1856 |
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Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
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| 1857 |
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Henry Potoni‚, German paleo-botanist/geologist (sapropelium)
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| 1859 |
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Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza," premieres in Moscow
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| 1860 |
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Edmund Schuecker, composer
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| 1861 |
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Vaclav Suk, composer
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| 1862 |
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Charles Thomas Biass Turner, cricketer (the "Terror")
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| 1863 |
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Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities
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| 1864 |
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Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia
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| 1864 |
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Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
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| 1870 |
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Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I
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| 1870 |
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Alfred Hill, composer
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| 1873 |
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W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, Alabama, jazz star (St Louis Blues)
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| 1874 |
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Johanna HC Albregt, Dutch actress (Dumb August)/wife of Henri Dons
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