George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ

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Capt Cook leaves Society Islands

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Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer, dies at 68

Death

John Fawcett, composer

Birth

1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens

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1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published

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Jacques Fran‡ois Gallay, composer

Birth

Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer

Birth

Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres

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Luther Prentice Bradley, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1910

Birth

Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist

Birth

Robert Bullock, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1905

Birth

Clinton Bowen Fisk, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890

Birth

H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63

Death

James Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies

Death

Bj”rnstjerne Bj”rnson, Norway, novelist (Pa Guds Veje, Nobel-1903)

Birth

Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust," premieres

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Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller," premieres in Naples

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Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten," premieres in Breslau

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Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin

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1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"

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Georges M‚liŠs, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story

Birth

Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)

Birth

William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine

Birth

Georges Feydeau, French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's)

Birth