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01/03/1830
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Alexander Ewing, composer
Type: Birth
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01/03/1831
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1st US building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
Type: Event
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01/03/1833
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Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
Type: Event
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01/03/1835
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Larkin Goldsmith Mead, sculptor
Type: Birth
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01/03/1835
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Willem F R”ell, Dutch baron/minister of Internal Affairs, dies at 67
Type: Death
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01/03/1836
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Friedrich Witt, composer, dies at 65
Type: Death
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01/03/1840
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1st deep sea sounding
Type: Event
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01/03/1840
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Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii
Type: Birth
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01/03/1841
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Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82
Type: Death
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01/03/1847
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California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
Type: Event
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01/03/1852
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1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
Type: Event
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01/03/1853
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Iwan Knorr, composer
Type: Birth
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01/03/1853
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Theodor Uhlig, composer, dies at 30
Type: Death
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01/03/1858
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Rachel, [Elisabeth Rachel-F‚lix], Fr singer/actress (Muse), dies at 36
Type: Death
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01/03/1861
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Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
Type: Event
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01/03/1861
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US Ft Pulaski and Ft Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia
Type: Event
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01/03/1862
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Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester
Type: Event
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01/03/1865
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Con Orem and Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match
Type: Event
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01/03/1865
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Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43
Type: Death
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01/03/1868
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Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors
Type: Event
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01/03/1868
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Franz V M Cumont, Belgian religious historian
Type: Birth
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01/03/1868
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Moritz Hauptmann, composer, dies at 75
Type: Death
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01/03/1869
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Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer
Type: Birth
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01/03/1870
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Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883
Type: Event
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01/03/1870
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Henry Eichheim, composer
Type: Birth
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01/03/1870
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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia, novelist (Richard Mahoney)
Type: Birth
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01/03/1870
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Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educationalist, dies at 46 [NS]
Type: Death
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01/03/1871
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Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY
Type: Event
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01/03/1872
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1st patent list issued by US Patent Office
Type: Event
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01/03/1873
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John Lodge Ellerton, composer, dies at 71
Type: Death
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01/03/1875
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Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68
Type: Death
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01/03/1875
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George Bizet, composer, dies
Type: Death
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01/03/1876
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1st free kindergarten in US opens in Florence, Mass
Type: Event
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01/03/1876
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Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/pres (1949-60)
Type: Birth
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01/03/1879
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Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29)
Type: Birth
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01/03/1882
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Willem Benoy, Flemish actor/director (Pygmalion)
Type: Birth
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01/03/1882
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William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76
Type: Death
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01/03/1883
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Clement Richard Attlee, (L) British PM (1945-51)
Type: Birth
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01/03/1884
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Eli S Jones, US, evangelist (Christ of Indian road)
Type: Birth
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01/03/1884
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Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer
Type: Birth
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01/03/1886
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Arthur Mailey, cricketer (great Aussie leg-spinner and cartoonist)
Type: Birth
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01/03/1886
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John G Fletcher, US, poet (Epic of Arkansas)
Type: Birth
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01/03/1886
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Josephine Hull, Newtonville MA, Academy award actress (Harvey)
Type: Birth
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01/03/1887
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Helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan)
Type: Birth
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01/03/1888
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1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC
Type: Event
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01/03/1889
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Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood
Type: Event
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01/03/1890
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1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
Type: Event
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01/03/1891
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Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15]
Type: Birth
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01/03/1892
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, S Afr, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings)
Type: Birth
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01/03/1893
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Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist (Gilles)
Type: Birth
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