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01/30/1798
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Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
Type: Event
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01/30/1800
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US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
Type: Event
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01/30/1804
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Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
Type: Event
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01/30/1806
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Prussia takes possession of Hanover
Type: Event
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01/30/1814
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Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian glass painter
Type: Birth
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01/30/1815
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Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols
Type: Event
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01/30/1816
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Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
Type: Birth
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01/30/1816
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Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/cartoonist/art collector, dies at 74
Type: Death
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01/30/1818
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Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
Type: Event
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01/30/1820
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Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
Type: Event
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01/30/1822
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John Basil Turchin, [Ivan Turchinoff], Brig General (Union volunteers)
Type: Birth
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01/30/1827
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Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer, dies at 53
Type: Death
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01/30/1829
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Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1910
Type: Birth
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01/30/1830
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James G Blaine, US, minister of foreign affairs
Type: Birth
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01/30/1834
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Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician
Type: Birth
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01/30/1835
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Richard Lawrence misfires at Pres Andrew Jackson in Washington DC
Type: Event
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01/30/1835
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Oliver Edwards, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1904
Type: Birth
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01/30/1838
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Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail
Type: Death
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01/30/1841
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Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist, died in 1914
Type: Birth
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01/30/1844
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Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, German gen/gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17)
Type: Birth
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01/30/1846
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Francis H Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism)
Type: Birth
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01/30/1847
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Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
Type: Event
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01/30/1853
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Emperor Napoleon III marries Eug‚nie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman
Type: Event
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01/30/1853
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Leland Hone, cricketer (England keeper 1879 without county experience)
Type: Birth
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01/30/1854
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1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
Type: Event
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01/30/1858
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Charles Hall‚ founds Hall‚ Orchestra in Manchester
Type: Event
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01/30/1858
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William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"
Type: Event
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01/30/1860
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Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer, dies at 44
Type: Death
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01/30/1861
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Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, Mulhouse Alsace, composer
Type: Birth
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01/30/1862
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US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
Type: Event
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01/30/1862
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Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer
Type: Birth
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01/30/1865
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Samuel Pl'h Naber, Dutch rear-admiral/librarian
Type: Birth
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01/30/1866
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Gelett Burgess, author (Purple Cow)
Type: Birth
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01/30/1871
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Seymour Hicks, St Helier Jersey, actor-manager (Scrooge)
Type: Birth
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01/30/1871
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Wilfred Lucas, actor (Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford)
Type: Birth
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01/30/1873
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Rose Melville, actress (Sis)
Type: Birth
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01/30/1877
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Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces
Type: Event
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01/30/1879
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French President MacMahon resigns
Type: Event
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01/30/1881
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Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58
Type: Death
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01/30/1882
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New Hyde Park NY, 32nd Pres (D) (1933-1945)
Type: Birth
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01/30/1883
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England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
Type: Event
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01/30/1885
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John Henry Towers, aviator/naval hero
Type: Birth
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01/30/1888
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Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria
Type: Event
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01/30/1888
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Asa Gray, US botanist (Flora of North America), dies at 77
Type: Death
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01/30/1889
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John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope
Type: Event
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01/30/1889
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Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76)
Type: Event
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01/30/1890
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Karl Merz, composer, dies at 53
Type: Death
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01/30/1892
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Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
Type: Event
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01/30/1892
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Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
Type: Event
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01/30/1892
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Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer
Type: Birth
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