373 Historic Events for January 18
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| 1829 |
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Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Blood to Bridge)
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| 1831 |
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Edward Ferrero, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
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| 1835 |
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Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet
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| 1835 |
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C‚sar A Cui, Vilna Lithuania, fort architect/composer
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| 1840 |
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Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears
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| 1840 |
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Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer
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| 1840 |
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Ernst Rudorff, composer
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| 1841 |
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Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, France, composer (Le Roi Malgr‚ Lui)
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| 1849 |
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Edmund Barton, 1st PM of Australia (1900-03)
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| 1850 |
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British blockade Pir‘us, Greece to enforce mercantile claims
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| 1854 |
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Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)
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| 1854 |
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Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW M‚xico
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| 1854 |
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Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies
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| 1856 |
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Daniel Nathan Hale Williams, surgeon (1st open heart operation)
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| 1856 |
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John Hyatt Brewer, composer
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| 1857 |
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Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I)
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| 1861 |
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Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist
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| 1861 |
Birth |
Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer
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| 1862 |
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Confederate Territory of Arizona forms
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| 1862 |
Death |
John Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71
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| 1865 |
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Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC
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| 1867 |
Birth |
Rub‚n Dar¡o, national poet (Nicaragua)
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| 1869 |
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Willem De Vreese, Flemish linguist/biblographer
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| 1869 |
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Elegant Calif Theater opens in SF
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| 1870 |
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Berend Modderman, printer (Drukkers yearbook)
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