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01/02/1857
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Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1857
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Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse and Gaston)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1860
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William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1861
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Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1861
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Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
Type: Event
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01/02/1861
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SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor
Type: Event
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01/02/1861
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Wilhelm B”lsche, writer
Type: Birth
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01/02/1861
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Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65
Type: Death
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01/02/1863
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Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 35
Type: Death
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01/02/1863
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Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1863
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Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends
Type: Event
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01/02/1870
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Ernst Barlach, writer
Type: Birth
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01/02/1870
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Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins
Type: Event
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01/02/1871
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King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25
Type: Event
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01/02/1873
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Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1879
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Pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1879
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Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1879
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Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill
Type: Event
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01/02/1879
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1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG
Type: Event
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01/02/1879
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Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
Type: Event
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01/02/1879
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British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die
Type: Event
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01/02/1880
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Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer
Type: Birth
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01/02/1881
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Camille Saint-Sa‰ns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
Type: Event
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01/02/1882
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Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
Type: Event
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01/02/1884
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Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1885
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Johannes Ringers, Dutch water engineer (dikes)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1885
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Gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum
Type: Event
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01/02/1886
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Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet (In New-York)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1889
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Walter Baldwin, Ohio, actor (Gay Amigo)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1889
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Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1890
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Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny
Type: Event
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01/02/1890
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Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer
Type: Event
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01/02/1892
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Lura Anson, Nebraska, entertainer
Type: Birth
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01/02/1892
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George B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90
Type: Death
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01/02/1893
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World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago [or 0501]
Type: Event
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01/02/1893
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1st US commemoratives and 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued
Type: Event
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01/02/1894
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Robert Nathan, NYC, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1895
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Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, UN)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1896
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Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
Type: Event
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01/02/1896
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Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer
Type: Birth
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01/02/1896
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Dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1899
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Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer
Type: Birth
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01/02/1899
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Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO (1957-61)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1900
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Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris
Type: Event
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01/02/1900
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E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal)
Type: Event
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01/02/1901
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Rex O'Malley, London England, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1901
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Robert Marshall, founder (Wilderness Society)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1901
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Torsten Ralf, Swedish tenor (Daphne)
Type: Birth
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01/02/1903
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Pres T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
Type: Event
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01/02/1903
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Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem JMA Asselbergs], literary
Type: Birth
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