373 Historic Events for January 13
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| 1830 |
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Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves
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| 1834 |
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Horatio Alger Jr, Revere Mass, author (Lost at Sea, Work and Win)
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| 1835 |
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Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian jurist/minister of the Interior
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| 1838 |
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Ferdinand Reis, composer, dies at 53
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| 1849 |
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Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
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| 1850 |
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Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer
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| 1854 |
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Anthony Foss patents accordion
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| 1859 |
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Karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature)
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| 1859 |
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Kost¡s Palam s, Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Bas¡lia)
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| 1863 |
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Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, NYC
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| 1863 |
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Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet
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| 1864 |
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Wilhelm K W Wien, German phyicist (Nobel 1911)
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| 1864 |
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Stephen Foster, composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in NY
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| 1865 |
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-Jan 15th] BBT and CPT Ft Fisher, NC
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| 1866 |
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Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer
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| 1869 |
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Emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general (WW I)/fascist
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| 1869 |
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National convention of black leaders meets in Wash DC
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| 1869 |
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Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
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| 1870 |
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Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/conductor (St Moniuszko)
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| 1873 |
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P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor
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| 1874 |
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US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
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| 1874 |
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Battle between jobless and police in NYC, 100s injuried
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| 1874 |
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Jozef E van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechlin
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| 1879 |
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WF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58
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| 1882 |
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Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"
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