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12/04/1812
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Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower
Type: Event
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12/04/1816
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James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
Type: Event
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12/04/1818
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William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1822
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Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society
Type: Birth
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12/04/1825
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Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer
Type: Birth
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12/04/1829
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Britain abolished "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
Type: Event
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12/04/1832
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French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
Type: Event
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12/04/1833
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American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila
Type: Event
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12/04/1835
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Samuel Butler, England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1836
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Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa
Type: Event
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12/04/1836
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Daniel Read, composer, dies at 79
Type: Death
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12/04/1838
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Melesio Morales, composer
Type: Birth
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12/04/1843
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Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri," premieres in Leipzig
Type: Event
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12/04/1843
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Manila paper (made from sails, canvas and rope) patented, Mass
Type: Event
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12/04/1844
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James K Polk elected 11th president of US
Type: Event
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12/04/1851
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Pres Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France
Type: Event
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12/04/1858
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Billy Gunn, cricketer (Notts and England batsman in 11 Tests 1886-99)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1861
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Lillian Russell, [Helen Leonard], US, singer/actress (Great Mogul)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1863
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Storm flood ravages Nethe coastal provinces
Type: Event
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12/04/1864
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Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
Type: Event
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12/04/1864
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Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek) GA
Type: Event
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12/04/1865
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Edith Louisa Cavell, England, nurse (WW I)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1866
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Vassily V Kandinsky, Russ/Ger/Fr abstract painter (Dreamy Inspiration)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1867
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Grange organized to protect farm interests
Type: Event
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12/04/1868
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Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter
Type: Birth
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12/04/1874
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Jean H L Bossard, actor/impresario (Merchant of Venice)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1875
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R M Rilke, writer
Type: Birth
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12/04/1875
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William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
Type: Event
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12/04/1875
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Austria, poet (Duino Elegies)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1876
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Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria, poet (Iron Poems)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1879
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Herbert Hamilton Harty, composer
Type: Birth
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12/04/1881
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Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1884
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Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45
Type: Death
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12/04/1888
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Aleksandar I Karadordjevic, king of Yugoslavia (1921-34)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1889
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Isabel Randolph, IL, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Our Miss Brooks)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1889
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Buck Jones, [Charles F Gebhart], US actor (War Horse)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1889
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Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
Type: Event
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12/04/1890
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Willem III, Dutch king, buried
Type: Event
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12/04/1892
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Francisco Franco, [y Bahamonde], Spanish General/dictator (1936-75)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1895
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Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1896
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Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [NS]
Type: Birth
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12/04/1897
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Mari Andriessen, Dutch sculptor (Dock Worker)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1899
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56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
Type: Event
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12/04/1899
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Webb Hayes son of pres Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor
Type: Event
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12/04/1899
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Douwe Hermans Kiestra, [Harm Harmstra], Frisian farmer/writer
Type: Birth
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12/04/1901
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Anne Russell's "Girl and the judge," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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12/04/1903
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Cornell Woolrich, US, writer (El Angel Negro)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1903
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Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian
Type: Birth
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12/04/1905
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Emilio M‚dici, president Brazil (1969-74)
Type: Birth
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12/04/1905
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British government of Balfour resigns
Type: Event
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