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02/16/1822
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Francis Galton, Birmingham England, anthropologist and geneticist
Type: Birth
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02/16/1822
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James Patton Anderson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1872
Type: Birth
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02/16/1823
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John Daniel Imboden, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
Type: Birth
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02/16/1823
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Johann Gottfried Schict, composer, dies at 69
Type: Death
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02/16/1824
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Athenaeum founded
Type: Event
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02/16/1825
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George Gerson, composer, dies at 34
Type: Death
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02/16/1826
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Franz von Holstein, composer
Type: Birth
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02/16/1826
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Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Gaudeamus)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1829
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Fran‡ois-Joseph Gossec, Belg/Fr composer (Messe of Morts), dies at 95
Type: Death
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02/16/1831
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Nikolai Leskow, writer
Type: Birth
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02/16/1832
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HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1øN, 29øW)
Type: Event
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02/16/1832
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Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Mjr General (Confederate Army)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1834
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Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Potsdam Germ, biologist (Causes of Evolution)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1834
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Lionel Lukin, life boat pioneer, dies
Type: Death
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02/16/1836
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Benjamin Edward Woolf, Dutch composer
Type: Birth
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02/16/1838
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Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions
Type: Event
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02/16/1838
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Arnoldus Pannevis, South African ship's doctor/linguist
Type: Birth
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02/16/1838
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Henry Adams, Boston Mass, historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1840
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American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Type: Event
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02/16/1846
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Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India
Type: Event
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02/16/1847
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Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album polonaise)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1848
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Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist (How species emerge)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1850
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Octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1851
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Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician, dies at 95
Type: Death
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02/16/1852
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Charles Taze Russell, religion founder (Jehovah's Witnesses)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1852
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William Scarborough, Macon Ga, linguist/author (Birds of Aristophanes)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1854
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Franz Liszts symphony "Orpheus," premieres
Type: Event
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02/16/1854
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Oscar Fetras, composer
Type: Birth
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02/16/1856
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Willem Kes, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor (Parkorkest Amsterdam)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1857
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Gallaudet College (Natl Deaf Mute college) forms (Wash DC)
Type: Event
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02/16/1857
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Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77
Type: Death
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02/16/1857
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Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic explorer (Kane Basin), dies at 37
Type: Death
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02/16/1858
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Laurence "Lon" Myers, US, track star (top US miler)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1858
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Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian, dies at 86
Type: Death
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02/16/1860
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Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse govt resigns
Type: Event
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02/16/1862
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Ft Donelson captured by Gen Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)
Type: Event
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02/16/1864
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Battle of Mobile, AL - operations by Union Army
Type: Event
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02/16/1864
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Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer, dies at 58
Type: Death
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02/16/1866
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Johann Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1866
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Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [NS=Feb 28]
Type: Birth
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02/16/1866
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William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton, NJ, hall of fame baseball player
Type: Birth
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02/16/1868
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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks forms (NY)
Type: Event
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02/16/1868
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Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist (Anthropos)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1876
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George Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian (Giuseppi Garibaldi)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1878
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Silver dollar became US legal tender
Type: Event
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02/16/1878
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Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer/conductor (Peter Schlemihl)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1880
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (NYC)
Type: Event
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02/16/1881
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Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Youth of a Poet)
Type: Birth
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02/16/1883
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"Ladies Home Journal" begins publishing
Type: Event
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02/16/1884
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Robert Flaherty, Mich, father of documentary film (Nanook of North)
Type: Birth
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