467 Historic Events for January 8
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| 1867 |
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Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite Pres Johnson's veto
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| 1867 |
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Emily Green Balch, US, sociologist/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1946)
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| 1868 |
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Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
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| 1870 |
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US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins
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| 1870 |
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Miguel Primo de Rivera Orbaneja, dictator of Spain (1923-30)
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| 1873 |
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Lucien Capet, composer
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| 1878 |
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Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent and Henry Morton Stanley
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| 1880 |
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[Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of US/Protector of M‚xico, dies at 60
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| 1883 |
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Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer
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| 1884 |
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Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
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| 1885 |
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John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM (Labor, 1941-45)
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| 1886 |
Birth |
Noble Drew Ali, [Timothy Drew], NC, prophet (Moorish Science Temple)
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| 1888 |
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Matt Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor (Coquette, Deluge)
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| 1888 |
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Richard Courant, German/US mathematician (What is mathematics?)
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| 1889 |
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Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine
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| 1889 |
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1st Computer patented
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| 1889 |
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Paul Hartmann, Furth Germany, actor (Haunted Castle)
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| 1890 |
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Sandor Rado, Hungarian/US psycho analyst
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| 1891 |
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Bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer
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| 1891 |
Birth |
Storm Jameson, English novelist (The Green Man, Cousin Honor‚)
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| 1891 |
Death |
Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81
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| 1891 |
Birth |
Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)
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| 1892 |
Birth |
Werner Wehrli, composer
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| 1892 |
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John Heykamp, old-catholic archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 67
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| 1894 |
Death |
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, paleont (life of tapeworms), dies at 84
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