376 Historic Events for January 2
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| 1857 |
Birth |
Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)
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| 1857 |
Birth |
Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse and Gaston)
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| 1860 |
Birth |
William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)
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| 1861 |
Birth |
Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12)
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| 1861 |
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Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
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| 1861 |
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SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor
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| 1861 |
Birth |
Wilhelm B”lsche, writer
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| 1861 |
Death |
Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65
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| 1863 |
Death |
Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 35
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| 1863 |
Birth |
Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
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| 1863 |
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Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends
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| 1870 |
Birth |
Ernst Barlach, writer
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| 1870 |
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Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins
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| 1871 |
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King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25
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| 1873 |
Birth |
Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)
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| 1879 |
Birth |
Pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)
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| 1879 |
Birth |
Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces)
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| 1879 |
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Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill
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| 1879 |
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1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG
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| 1879 |
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Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
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| 1879 |
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British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die
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| 1880 |
Birth |
Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer
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| 1881 |
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Camille Saint-Sa‰ns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
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| 1882 |
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Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
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| 1884 |
Birth |
Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)
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