449 Historic Events for February 28
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| 1854 |
Birth |
Juliusz Zarebski, composer
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| 1857 |
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Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer
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| 1858 |
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Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries)
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| 1859 |
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Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
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| 1861 |
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Territories of Nevada and Colorado created
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| 1862 |
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Opera "La Reine de Saba," premieres in Paris
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| 1863 |
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Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister Georgia
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| 1864 |
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-Mar 3rd] Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)
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| 1864 |
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-Mar 4th) Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond
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| 1865 |
Birth |
Arthur Symons, Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy)
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| 1865 |
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Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary
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| 1866 |
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Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [OS=2/16]
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| 1871 |
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2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
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| 1874 |
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Soledad Jiminez, Santander Spain, actor (Phantom ofthe Range)
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| 1875 |
Birth |
Viliam Figus, composer
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| 1876 |
Birth |
John Alden Carpenter, Chicago Illinois, composer (Sea Drift)
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| 1876 |
Death |
Charles Edward Horsley, composer, dies at 53
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| 1877 |
Birth |
Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer
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| 1878 |
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US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate
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| 1879 |
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"Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
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| 1882 |
Birth |
Geraldine Farrar, US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer)
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| 1882 |
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1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard U
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| 1882 |
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Jos‚ Vasconcelos, Oaxaca M‚xico, politician/essayist/philosopher
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| 1882 |
Birth |
Richard Heinrich Stein, composer
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| 1883 |
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1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
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