381 Historic Events for January 4
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| 1804 |
Death |
Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies
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| 1805 |
Birth |
Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer
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| 1807 |
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Baltasar Saldoni, composer
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| 1809 |
Birth |
Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind)
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| 1809 |
Death |
Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer, dies at 67
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| 1813 |
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Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier (1852-59)
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| 1813 |
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Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand)
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| 1813 |
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Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator
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| 1821 |
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Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland
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| 1821 |
Birth |
John James Peck, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
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| 1822 |
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Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
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| 1823 |
Birth |
Otto van Rees, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1884-88)
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| 1823 |
Birth |
Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
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| 1825 |
Death |
Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies at 73
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| 1831 |
Death |
Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37
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| 1832 |
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Insurrection of Trinidad negroes
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| 1837 |
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Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)
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| 1838 |
Birth |
Charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb] (famous short person)
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| 1843 |
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Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens
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| 1843 |
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Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris
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| 1843 |
Death |
Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess, dies at 80
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| 1844 |
Birth |
Thomas H Rollinson, composer
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| 1847 |
Birth |
Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician
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| 1861 |
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US Ft Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama
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| 1861 |
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Pres Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession
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