466 Historic Events for December 31
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| 1802 |
Death |
Francis Lewis, Welsh/US merchant/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 89
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| 1802 |
Death |
Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, composer, dies at 53
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| 1805 |
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End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
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| 1805 |
Birth |
Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, [Daniel Stern], French author (Knife)
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| 1809 |
Death |
Franz Ignaz Beck, composer, dies at 75
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| 1815 |
Birth |
George Gordon Meade, Major General (Union Army), died in 1872
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| 1818 |
Death |
Jean-Pierre Duport, composer, dies at 77
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| 1818 |
Birth |
Maria J Small-Gartmann, actress
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| 1825 |
Birth |
Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905
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| 1826 |
Birth |
Henry Hiles, composer
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| 1830 |
Birth |
Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79)
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| 1838 |
Birth |
Emile Loubet, premier/president of France (1892, 1899-1906)
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| 1841 |
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Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons
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| 1846 |
Birth |
Richard Kleinmichel, composer
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| 1846 |
Birth |
Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, vicar/Dutch anarchist (Right for all)
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| 1848 |
Death |
Oliver Shaw, composer, dies at 69
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| 1852 |
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Future president and Mrs Rutherford B Hayes marry
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| 1855 |
Birth |
Giovanni Pascoli, Italian classicist/poet
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| 1856 |
Birth |
Charles A van Ophuysen, ori‰ntalist (Maleisisch Volksrecht)
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| 1857 |
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Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
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| 1859 |
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Dutch colony in Dutch Indies counts 4,800 slaves
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| 1859 |
Birth |
Max Fiedler, composer
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| 1859 |
Death |
Luigi Ricci, composer, dies at 54
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| 1861 |
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22,990 mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in 1861, world record
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| 1862 |
Death |
James Edward Rains, lawyer/Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 29
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