437 Historic Events for February 5
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| 1816 |
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Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville," premieres in Rome
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| 1817 |
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1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
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| 1822 |
Death |
Ali Pasha of Janina, (Napoleon, Lord Byron), dies at about 77
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| 1825 |
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Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar
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| 1825 |
Death |
Pierre Gaveaux, composer, dies at 64
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| 1831 |
Death |
John CJ van Speijk, commits suicide at 29
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| 1831 |
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Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30
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| 1833 |
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John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag)
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| 1837 |
Birth |
Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
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| 1838 |
Death |
Philippe Libon, composer, dies at 62
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| 1840 |
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John Boyd Dunlop, Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire)
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| 1840 |
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Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)
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| 1846 |
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"Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
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| 1848 |
Birth |
Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], US female outlaw (wild west)
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| 1848 |
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Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain)
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| 1850 |
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Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
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| 1855 |
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British govt of Palmerston forms
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| 1856 |
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Otto Brahm, German critic/founder (Neue Deutsche Rundschau)
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| 1860 |
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Jackson Showalter, 1st US chess champion (1888-92, 1895-97, 1906-0?)
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| 1861 |
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Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
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| 1861 |
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Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Phila
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| 1861 |
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1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale
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| 1862 |
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Felipe Villanueva y Guti‚rrez, Mexico, composer
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| 1863 |
Birth |
Armand Parent, composer
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| 1864 |
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Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
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