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02/05/1816
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Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville," premieres in Rome
Type: Event
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02/05/1817
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1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
Type: Event
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02/05/1822
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Ali Pasha of Janina, (Napoleon, Lord Byron), dies at about 77
Type: Death
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02/05/1825
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Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar
Type: Event
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02/05/1825
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Pierre Gaveaux, composer, dies at 64
Type: Death
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02/05/1831
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John CJ van Speijk, commits suicide at 29
Type: Death
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02/05/1831
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Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30
Type: Event
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02/05/1833
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John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1837
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Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1838
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Philippe Libon, composer, dies at 62
Type: Death
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02/05/1840
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John Boyd Dunlop, Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1840
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Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1846
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"Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
Type: Event
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02/05/1848
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Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], US female outlaw (wild west)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1848
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Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1850
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Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
Type: Event
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02/05/1855
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British govt of Palmerston forms
Type: Event
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02/05/1856
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Otto Brahm, German critic/founder (Neue Deutsche Rundschau)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1860
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Jackson Showalter, 1st US chess champion (1888-92, 1895-97, 1906-0?)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1861
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Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
Type: Event
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02/05/1861
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Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Phila
Type: Event
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02/05/1861
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1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale
Type: Event
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02/05/1862
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Felipe Villanueva y Gutirrez, Mexico, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1863
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Armand Parent, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1864
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Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
Type: Event
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02/05/1864
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Carl Tieke, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1865
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Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1865
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Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
Type: Event
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02/05/1866
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Arthur Keith, Scottish anthropologist
Type: Birth
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02/05/1866
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Henri [Hendrik J] Hall, Dutch MP/comic (Put a Lid on it)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1866
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Rossetter Gleason Cole, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1867
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Casper A Lingbeek, vicar/Dutch MP (HSP, 1925..37)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1867
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Salomon Munk, published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies
Type: Death
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02/05/1868
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Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1870
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1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
Type: Event
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02/05/1871
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Jovan Ducic, Serb poet (Blue Legends)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1878
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Andr-Gustave Citron, France, auto maker
Type: Birth
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02/05/1879
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Edward Rigby, England, actor (Star Look Down, Young and Innocent)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1879
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Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow
Type: Event
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02/05/1881
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Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright (Balkan Princess)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1881
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Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85
Type: Death
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02/05/1881
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Phoenix, Az incorporates
Type: Event
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02/05/1882
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Felice Lattuada, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1885
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News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
Type: Event
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02/05/1887
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A P Gtersloh, writer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1887
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Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
Type: Event
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02/05/1887
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Snow falls on SF
Type: Event
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02/05/1888
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Anton Mauve, Dutch painter/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh, dies at 49
Type: Death
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02/05/1889
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Elias Henry "Patsy" Hendren, cricketer (prolific England bat of 20's)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1889
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Ioan Dumitru Chirescu, composer
Type: Birth
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