432 Historic Events for January 6
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| 1832 |
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New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
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| 1832 |
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Gustave Dor‚, Strasbourg Fr, illustrator (Inferno, Ancient Mariner)
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| 1835 |
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Martin K„hler, Germany, theologist
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| 1838 |
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Max Bruch, K”ln (Cologne), Germany, composer
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| 1838 |
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Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
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| 1839 |
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2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"
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| 1842 |
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4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
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| 1842 |
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Clarence King, mining engineer (geologist)
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| 1850 |
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Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist (New Era)
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| 1850 |
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Franz Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha)
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| 1854 |
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Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)
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| 1856 |
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Giuseppe Martucci, composer
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| 1857 |
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Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
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| 1859 |
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Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Moral order and progress)
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| 1861 |
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NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N and S
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| 1861 |
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Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
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| 1861 |
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Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer
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| 1864 |
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Ban Johnson, Norwalk Ct, baseball founder (American League)
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| 1867 |
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Georges Martin Witkowski, composer
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| 1868 |
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Vittorio Monti, composer
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| 1872 |
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Alexander N Scriabin, Moscow, hallucinogenic composer (Prometheus)
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| 1873 |
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Karl Straube, German organist/conductor
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| 1873 |
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US Congress begins investigating Cr‚dit Mobilier scandal
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| 1873 |
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Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
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| 1878 |
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Carl Sandburg, US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
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