486 Historic Events for February 15
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| 1841 |
Death |
Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53
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| 1842 |
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1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
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| 1844 |
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Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, Brit premier (1801-04), dies at 86
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| 1845 |
Birth |
Elihu Root, (R)/US Sec of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912)
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| 1845 |
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William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector
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| 1847 |
Birth |
Robert Fuchs, composer
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| 1848 |
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Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
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| 1849 |
Death |
Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44
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| 1851 |
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Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave
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| 1852 |
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Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient
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| 1855 |
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Gustav Hollaender, composer
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| 1856 |
Birth |
Frank Harris, Galway England, writer
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| 1857 |
Death |
Mikhail Glinka, composer, dies
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| 1857 |
Death |
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Russian composer, dies at 53
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| 1858 |
Birth |
William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th and 10th moons of Saturn)
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| 1861 |
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Ft Point completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
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| 1861 |
Birth |
Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher (Adv of Ideas)
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| 1861 |
Birth |
Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer
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| 1862 |
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Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee
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| 1864 |
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Fire in Rotterdam Neth damages Museum Boymans
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| 1864 |
Death |
Israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies
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| 1864 |
Death |
William Dyce, painter, dies
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| 1865 |
Death |
Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies
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| 1866 |
Birth |
Bannister Fletcher, London, architect and architectural historian
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| 1869 |
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Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
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