413 Historic Events for February 26
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| 1841 |
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Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general (Egypt)
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| 1842 |
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Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher and popularizer of astronomy
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| 1845 |
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Aleksander Rozycki, composer
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| 1845 |
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Alexander III, St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94) (3/10 NS)
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| 1846 |
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William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davenport Iowa, killed 4000 buffaloes
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| 1848 |
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2nd French Republic proclaimed
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| 1848 |
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Marx and Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
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| 1848 |
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2nd French Republic forms
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| 1852 |
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British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die
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| 1852 |
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John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry
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| 1857 |
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Emile Cou‚, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)
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| 1857 |
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Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer, dies at 88
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| 1859 |
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Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins
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| 1859 |
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Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer, dies at 64
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| 1861 |
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Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18)
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| 1862 |
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Battle of Woodburn, KY
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| 1863 |
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Lincoln signs National Currency Act
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| 1866 |
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New York Legislature forms NYC Metropolitan Board of Health
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| 1866 |
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Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical)
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| 1867 |
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Siegfried Passarge, German geographer (Cameroon/So Afr/America)
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| 1868 |
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Leonard Borwick, British(?) pianist
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| 1869 |
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Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin
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| 1869 |
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15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
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| 1869 |
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Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic," premieres
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| 1870 |
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Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in NC, lynched
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