692 Historic Events for January 1
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| 1833 |
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British government demands Falkland islands
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| 1833 |
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Cura‡ao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people and 5,894 slaves
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| 1834 |
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German Tolunie goes into effect
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| 1838 |
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1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
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| 1838 |
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William Hugh Young, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
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| 1840 |
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1st recorded bowling match in US, Knickerbocker Alleys, NYC
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| 1842 |
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1st illustrated weekly magazine in US publishes 1st issue, NYC
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| 1843 |
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer
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| 1844 |
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1st edition of New Rotterdam's Daily (3x per week)
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| 1846 |
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Yucatan declares independence from M‚xico
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| 1846 |
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Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier (1891..1926)
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| 1847 |
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Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment
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| 1847 |
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Neth's Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing
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| 1848 |
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Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
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| 1850 |
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Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist, dies at 76
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| 1851 |
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City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line
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| 1852 |
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Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps
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| 1852 |
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1st US public bath opens, in NYC
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| 1852 |
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National debt of Britain and Ireland is œ765,126,582
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| 1853 |
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Hans Koessler, composer
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| 1853 |
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1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in US enters service
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| 1854 |
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Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn)
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| 1854 |
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James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)
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| 1858 |
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Canada begins using decimal currency system
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| 1860 |
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Slavery ends of in Neth Indies
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