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01/31/1836
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Henryk Szulc, composer
Type: Birth
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01/31/1842
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John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in White House
Type: Event
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01/31/1849
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Corn Laws abolished in Britain
Type: Event
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01/31/1851
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Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk
Type: Event
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01/31/1851
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SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in Calif, founded
Type: Event
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01/31/1854
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Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute)
Type: Event
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01/31/1855
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Western railroads blocked by snow
Type: Event
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01/31/1861
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Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman, dies at 53
Type: Death
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01/31/1861
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State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans
Type: Event
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01/31/1861
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Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod," premieres in Weimar
Type: Event
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01/31/1862
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Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
Type: Event
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01/31/1863
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1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army
Type: Event
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01/31/1863
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F Henri Berz, French existensialist philosopher (Revue the Synthesis)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1864
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Hamilton Rowan Gamble, US judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies
Type: Death
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01/31/1865
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Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
Type: Event
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01/31/1865
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Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
Type: Event
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01/31/1866
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Emil Strauss, Germany, writer (Naked Man)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1866
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Henry Forster, cricketer (Oxford blue 1887-89, later Aust Gov-General)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1868
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Theodore William Richards, chemist (atomic weights, Nobel-1914)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1869
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Henry graaf Carton de Wiart, Belgian literary/premier (1920-21)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1871
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Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky
Type: Event
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01/31/1872
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Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1874
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Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri
Type: Event
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01/31/1877
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Max Ettlinger, German philosopher
Type: Birth
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01/31/1878
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Willem J M van Eysinga, Dutch international law jurist
Type: Birth
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01/31/1881
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Joseph A Cushman, US, palaentologist
Type: Birth
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01/31/1881
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Irving Langmuir, inventor (tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1882
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Anna Pavlova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer
Type: Birth
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01/31/1882
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Josephus RH van Schaik, Dutch lawyer/vice-premier
Type: Birth
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01/31/1884
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Nicholas Joy, Paris France, actor (Boss Lady)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1886
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Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, statesman (Pres UN security council-1948)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1889
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F R Foster, cricketer (330 runs and 45 wickets for England)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1890
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Adolf Bach, German language/sociologist (Deutsche Namenkunde)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1891
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Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75
Type: Death
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01/31/1891
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Max Drischner, composer
Type: Birth
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01/31/1892
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Eddie Cantor, NYC, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1893
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"Westminster Gazette" begins publishing
Type: Event
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01/31/1893
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Freya Stark, English explorist/author
Type: Birth
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01/31/1894
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Percy Helton, NY, actor (Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1895
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Jos‚ Martˇ and others leave NYC for invasion of Spanish Cuba
Type: Event
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01/31/1901
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Boer general John Smuts and De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal
Type: Event
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01/31/1901
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Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer
Type: Birth
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01/31/1901
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Blaz Arnic, composer
Type: Birth
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01/31/1901
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Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at Moscow Art Theater
Type: Event
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01/31/1901
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Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montr‚al Shamrocks in 2 for Stanley Cup
Type: Event
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01/31/1902
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Alva Myrdal, Uppsala Sweden, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize-1982)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1902
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Jean C M Picart le Doux, France, carpet designer
Type: Birth
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01/31/1902
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Julian H Steward, US anthropologist/professor
Type: Birth
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01/31/1903
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Gardner Cowles, Iowa, publisher/founder (Look Magazine)
Type: Birth
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01/31/1903
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Tallulah Bankhead, Huntsville Ala, actress (Lifeboat, Die Die Darling)
Type: Birth
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