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02/25/1819
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Filinto ElĄsio, [do Nascimento], Portuguese poet, dies at 84
Type: Death
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02/25/1826
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Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60
Type: Death
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02/25/1828
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John Quincy Adam's son John marries in White House
Type: Event
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02/25/1830
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Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris
Type: Event
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02/25/1832
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Theodorus J I Arnold, bibliographer (Bibliotheca Belgian)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1833
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Clement Anselm Evans, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
Type: Birth
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02/25/1833
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Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress
Type: Birth
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02/25/1836
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Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
Type: Event
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02/25/1837
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1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
Type: Event
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02/25/1838
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London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
Type: Event
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02/25/1839
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Seminoles and black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West
Type: Event
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02/25/1840
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Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Climax of Theories)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1840
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Alexis Hollander, composer
Type: Birth
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02/25/1841
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Pierre Auguste Renoir, Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor
Type: Birth
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02/25/1842
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Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1847
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State University of Iowa is approved
Type: Event
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02/25/1847
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John Watson, Canada, philosopher (Objective Idealism)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1851
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Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53
Type: Death
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02/25/1852
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Thomas Moore, writer (Utopia), dies
Type: Death
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02/25/1855
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George Bonnor, cricketer (big-hitting Aussie batter 1880-1888)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1856
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Charles Lang Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1876]
Type: Birth
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02/25/1859
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1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
Type: Event
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02/25/1860
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William James Ashley, English economic-historian
Type: Birth
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02/25/1860
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Menso Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/water colors painter
Type: Birth
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02/25/1862
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Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Type: Event
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02/25/1862
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Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by Pres Abraham Lincoln
Type: Event
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02/25/1863
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Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
Type: Event
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02/25/1865
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Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47
Type: Death
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02/25/1866
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Benedetto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher
Type: Birth
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02/25/1868
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Anthony J Block, Dutch lawyer (strafproces)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1870
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Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)
Type: Event
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02/25/1871
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Oliver Samuel Campbell, tennis champ (US Open-1890)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1873
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Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1875
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Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
Type: Event
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02/25/1876
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Charles Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1856]
Type: Birth
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02/25/1879
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Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
Type: Event
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02/25/1879
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Otakar Ostrcil, composer
Type: Birth
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02/25/1881
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William Foster, Mass, Communist Pres candidate (1924,28,32)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1882
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Bruno? Traven, German? writer (Sierra Madre)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1882
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Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philologist (Language boundary)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1882
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Ludvig Nordstrm, Sweden, writer (Story of Peter Svensk)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1885
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US Congress condemns barbed wire around govt grounds
Type: Event
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02/25/1887
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Leonard Carey, England, actor (Laughter)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1888
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John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1890
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Myra Hess, London England, concert pianist
Type: Birth
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02/25/1892
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James Barrie's "Walker London," premieres in London
Type: Event
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02/25/1894
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Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1894
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James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor/author/director, dies at 51
Type: Death
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02/25/1894
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Howard Wendell, Poland, actor (4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake)
Type: Birth
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02/25/1895
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DeBenneville "Bert" Bell, PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles)
Type: Birth
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