393 Historic Events for January 25
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| 1829 |
Death |
William Shield, composer, dies at 80
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| 1834 |
Birth |
Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer
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| 1835 |
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Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
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| 1835 |
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Opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
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| 1839 |
Birth |
Seldon Connor, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
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| 1841 |
Birth |
John Arbuthnot Fisher, Ceylon, 1st Baron Fisher/admiral of the fleet
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| 1844 |
Birth |
Frederick E Kitziger, composer
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| 1844 |
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Recontre between Reps Weller and Shriver, US House of Representative
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| 1851 |
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Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Bondestudentar)
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| 1851 |
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Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
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| 1851 |
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Jan Blockx, Belgium, opera composer (Sea Bride princess of Herberg)
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| 1854 |
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Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bednost ne Porok," premieres in Moscow
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| 1855 |
Death |
Dorothy Wordsworth, writer, dies at 83
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| 1856 |
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Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers and Indians
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| 1858 |
Birth |
Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer
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| 1858 |
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Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
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| 1860 |
Birth |
Charles Curtis, (R) 31st US VP (1929-33)
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| 1863 |
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Battle of Kinston, NC
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| 1863 |
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General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
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| 1865 |
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CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
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| 1866 |
Birth |
Emile Vandervelde, leader of Belgian BWP party
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| 1870 |
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Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
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| 1874 |
Birth |
Hewlett Johnson, [Red Dean of Canterbury], English bishop
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| 1874 |
Birth |
[William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage)
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| 1875 |
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Anti-slavery society forms (NY)
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