Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891

Birth

NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business

Event

James Southerton, cricketer (Test debut in the 1st ever Test at 49)

Birth

Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer [OS]

Birth

Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51

Death

Charles Darwins voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society

Event

Elliott Warren Rice, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1887

Birth

Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48

Death

Frederick Scotson Clark, composer

Birth

Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)

Event

N E Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver

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Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician

Birth

Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens

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Henry Potoni‚, German paleo-botanist/geologist (sapropelium)

Birth

Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza," premieres in Moscow

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Edmund Schuecker, composer

Birth

Vaclav Suk, composer

Birth

Charles Thomas Biass Turner, cricketer (the "Terror")

Birth

Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities

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Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia

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Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War

Event

Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I

Event

Alfred Hill, composer

Birth

W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, Alabama, jazz star (St Louis Blues)

Birth

Johanna HC Albregt, Dutch actress (Dumb August)/wife of Henri Dons

Birth