387 Historic Events for January 21
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| 1743 |
Birth |
John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)
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| 1746 |
Death |
Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60
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| 1746 |
Birth |
Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard and Gertrude) [NS]
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| 1751 |
Birth |
Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer
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| 1759 |
Birth |
Johan Valckenaer, Dutch politician/patriot
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| 1762 |
Birth |
Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
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| 1771 |
Birth |
Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director
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| 1774 |
Death |
Mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56
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| 1775 |
Birth |
Manuel Garcia, composer
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| 1789 |
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1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published
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| 1792 |
Birth |
Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, Fries story teller (Rhymes and Tales)
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| 1793 |
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Prussia and Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
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| 1793 |
Death |
Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38
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| 1796 |
Birth |
John Gelinde van Blom, Frisian notary/author
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| 1799 |
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Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
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| 1801 |
Birth |
Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer
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| 1813 |
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Pineapple introduced to Hawaii (or 01/111)
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| 1813 |
Birth |
John C Fr‚mont, [Pathfinder], map maker/explorer (western US)/Gov (AZ)
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| 1814 |
Birth |
Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer
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| 1815 |
Death |
M Claudius, writer, dies at 74
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| 1815 |
Birth |
Horace Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anethesia)
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| 1818 |
Event |
Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
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| 1821 |
Birth |
John Cabell Breckinridge, (D) 14th US VP (1857-61)/mjr-gen (Confed)
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| 1821 |
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Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
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| 1823 |
Birth |
Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer
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