388 Historic Events for January 3
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| 1830 |
Birth |
Alexander Ewing, composer
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| 1831 |
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1st US building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
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| 1833 |
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Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
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| 1835 |
Birth |
Larkin Goldsmith Mead, sculptor
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| 1835 |
Death |
Willem F R”ell, Dutch baron/minister of Internal Affairs, dies at 67
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| 1836 |
Death |
Friedrich Witt, composer, dies at 65
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| 1840 |
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1st deep sea sounding
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| 1840 |
Birth |
Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii
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| 1841 |
Death |
Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82
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| 1847 |
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California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
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| 1852 |
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1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
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| 1853 |
Death |
Theodor Uhlig, composer, dies at 30
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| 1853 |
Birth |
Iwan Knorr, composer
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| 1858 |
Death |
Rachel, [Elisabeth Rachel-F‚lix], Fr singer/actress (Muse), dies at 36
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| 1861 |
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Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
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| 1861 |
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US Ft Pulaski and Ft Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia
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| 1862 |
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Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester
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| 1865 |
Event |
Con Orem and Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match
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| 1865 |
Death |
Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43
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| 1868 |
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Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors
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| 1868 |
Birth |
Franz V M Cumont, Belgian religious historian
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| 1868 |
Death |
Moritz Hauptmann, composer, dies at 75
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| 1869 |
Birth |
Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer
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| 1870 |
Birth |
Henry Handel Richardson, Australia, novelist (Richard Mahoney)
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| 1870 |
Birth |
Henry Eichheim, composer
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