Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer

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Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58

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Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies

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Mass militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft William and Mary

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Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos the mayo)

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Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer

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Karl Robert von Nesselrode, Germ/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs

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Charleston, SC evacuated by British

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Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer

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Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74

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Carlos III, King of Naples/Spain (1759-88), dies at 72

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Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer

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1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati

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David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut and bolt machine

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George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66

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Charles J Canning, English earl/1st viceroy of British-Indies

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Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state

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Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53

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Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (Panth‚on)

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Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins

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John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office

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Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74

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Allen Thomas, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907

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Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902

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William Wells, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892

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