1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania

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Frederik W Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer

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John Augustus Sutter, Swiss/US colonist (New Helvetia Ca, Sutter Mill)

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New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery

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Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer

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Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)

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Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)

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Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler (Tiffany)

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Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter

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Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies at 69

Death

Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor (typewriter)

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Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette

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William Ellery, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 92

Death

Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63

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Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet

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Theodor Uhlig, composer

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Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton

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George J Stoney, Irish physicist

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Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary)

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Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Roland Blake)

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Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies

Death

Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer, dies at 85

Death

William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer

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Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911

Birth

Henry Hunt, British politican, dies

Death