421 Historic Events for January 31
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| 1836 |
Birth |
Henryk Szulc, composer
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| 1842 |
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John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in White House
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| 1849 |
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Corn Laws abolished in Britain
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| 1851 |
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Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk
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| 1851 |
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SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in Calif, founded
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| 1854 |
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Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute)
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| 1855 |
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Western railroads blocked by snow
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| 1861 |
Death |
Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman, dies at 53
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| 1861 |
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State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans
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| 1861 |
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Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod," premieres in Weimar
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| 1862 |
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Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
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| 1863 |
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1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army
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| 1863 |
Birth |
F Henri Berz, French existensialist philosopher (Revue the Synthesis)
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| 1864 |
Death |
Hamilton Rowan Gamble, US judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies
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| 1865 |
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Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
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| 1865 |
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Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
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| 1866 |
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Emil Strauss, Germany, writer (Naked Man)
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| 1866 |
Birth |
Henry Forster, cricketer (Oxford blue 1887-89, later Aust Gov-General)
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| 1868 |
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Theodore William Richards, chemist (atomic weights, Nobel-1914)
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| 1869 |
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Henry graaf Carton de Wiart, Belgian literary/premier (1920-21)
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| 1871 |
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Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky
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| 1872 |
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Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage)
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| 1874 |
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Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri
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| 1877 |
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Max Ettlinger, German philosopher
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| 1878 |
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Willem J M van Eysinga, Dutch international law jurist
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