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02/15/1841
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Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53
Type: Death
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02/15/1842
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1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
Type: Event
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02/15/1844
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Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, Brit premier (1801-04), dies at 86
Type: Death
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02/15/1845
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William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector
Type: Event
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02/15/1845
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Elihu Root, (R)/US Sec of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912)
Type: Birth
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02/15/1847
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Robert Fuchs, composer
Type: Birth
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02/15/1848
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Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
Type: Event
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02/15/1849
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Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44
Type: Death
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02/15/1851
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Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave
Type: Event
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02/15/1852
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Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient
Type: Event
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02/15/1855
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Gustav Hollaender, composer
Type: Birth
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02/15/1856
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Frank Harris, Galway England, writer
Type: Birth
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02/15/1857
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Mikhail Glinka, composer, dies
Type: Death
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02/15/1857
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Russian composer, dies at 53
Type: Death
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02/15/1858
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William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th and 10th moons of Saturn)
Type: Birth
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02/15/1861
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Ft Point completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
Type: Event
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02/15/1861
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Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher (Adv of Ideas)
Type: Birth
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02/15/1861
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Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer
Type: Birth
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02/15/1862
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Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee
Type: Event
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02/15/1864
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Fire in Rotterdam Neth damages Museum Boymans
Type: Event
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02/15/1864
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Israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies
Type: Death
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02/15/1864
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William Dyce, painter, dies
Type: Death
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02/15/1865
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Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies
Type: Death
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02/15/1866
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Bannister Fletcher, London, architect and architectural historian
Type: Birth
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02/15/1869
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Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
Type: Event
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02/15/1870
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Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn
Type: Event
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02/15/1874
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Emilis Melngailis, composer
Type: Birth
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02/15/1874
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Ernest H Shackleton, Kilkee Ireland, explorer (Endurance, Antarctica)
Type: Birth
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02/15/1876
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Historic Elm at Boston blown down
Type: Event
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02/15/1879
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Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct
Type: Event
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02/15/1882
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1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin
Type: Event
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02/15/1882
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SS Dunedin leaves NZ with 1st frozen meat to England
Type: Event
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02/15/1882
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John Barrymore, [Blythe], Phila, actor (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)
Type: Birth
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02/15/1885
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Richard Wurz, composer
Type: Birth
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02/15/1885
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Leopold Damrosch, composer, dies at 52
Type: Death
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02/15/1886
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Sax Rohmer, England, author (Dr Fu Manchu)
Type: Birth
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02/15/1887
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H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist
Type: Birth
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02/15/1887
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Alexander Borodin, composer, dies
Type: Death
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02/15/1890
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Robert Ley, German chemist/MP (NSDAP)
Type: Birth
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02/15/1891
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William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies
Type: Death
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02/15/1892
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James Forrestal, US, banker/minister of Navy
Type: Birth
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02/15/1893
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Harm H Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/etcher/ceramist
Type: Birth
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02/15/1893
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Walter Donaldson, US pianist/composer (Girl Crazy, Whoopee)
Type: Birth
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02/15/1894
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Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman (1st pres of UN)
Type: Birth
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02/15/1895
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23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
Type: Event
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02/15/1896
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Arthur Shields, Dublin Ireland, actor (River, Enchanted Island)
Type: Birth
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02/15/1896
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E J Nicholson, writer, dies
Type: Death
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02/15/1897
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Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1965)
Type: Birth
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02/15/1898
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USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die
Type: Event
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02/15/1898
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Ibuse Masuji, Japanese writer (Y“hai Taich“, Kuroi Ame)
Type: Birth
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