445 Historic Events for January 30
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| 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
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| 1800 |
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US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
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| 1804 |
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Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
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| 1806 |
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Prussia takes possession of Hanover
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| 1814 |
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Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian glass painter
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| 1815 |
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Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols
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| 1816 |
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Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/cartoonist/art collector, dies at 74
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| 1816 |
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Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
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| 1818 |
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Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
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| 1820 |
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Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
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| 1822 |
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John Basil Turchin, [Ivan Turchinoff], Brig General (Union volunteers)
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| 1827 |
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Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer, dies at 53
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| 1829 |
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Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1910
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| 1830 |
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James G Blaine, US, minister of foreign affairs
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| 1834 |
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Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician
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| 1835 |
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Richard Lawrence misfires at Pres Andrew Jackson in Washington DC
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| 1835 |
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Oliver Edwards, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1904
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| 1838 |
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Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail
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| 1841 |
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Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist, died in 1914
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| 1844 |
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Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, German gen/gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17)
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| 1846 |
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Francis H Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism)
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| 1847 |
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Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
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| 1853 |
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Leland Hone, cricketer (England keeper 1879 without county experience)
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| 1853 |
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Emperor Napoleon III marries Eug‚nie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman
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| 1854 |
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1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
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