437 Historic Events for February 5
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| 1864 |
Birth |
Carl Tieke, composer
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| 1865 |
Birth |
Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer
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| 1865 |
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Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
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| 1866 |
Birth |
Arthur Keith, Scottish anthropologist
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| 1866 |
Birth |
Henri [Hendrik J] Hall, Dutch MP/comic (Put a Lid on it)
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| 1866 |
Birth |
Rossetter Gleason Cole, composer
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| 1867 |
Birth |
Casper A Lingbeek, vicar/Dutch MP (HSP, 1925..37)
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| 1867 |
Death |
Salomon Munk, published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies
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| 1868 |
Birth |
Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer
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| 1870 |
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1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
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| 1871 |
Birth |
Jovan Ducic, Serb poet (Blue Legends)
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| 1878 |
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Andr‚-Gustave Citro‰n, France, auto maker
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| 1879 |
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Edward Rigby, England, actor (Star Look Down, Young and Innocent)
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| 1879 |
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Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow
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| 1881 |
Birth |
Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright (Balkan Princess)
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| 1881 |
Death |
Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85
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| 1881 |
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Phoenix, Az incorporates
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| 1882 |
Birth |
Felice Lattuada, composer
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| 1885 |
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News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
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| 1887 |
Birth |
A P Gtersloh, writer
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| 1887 |
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Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
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| 1887 |
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Snow falls on SF
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| 1888 |
Death |
Anton Mauve, Dutch painter/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh, dies at 49
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| 1889 |
Birth |
Elias Henry "Patsy" Hendren, cricketer (prolific England bat of 20's)
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| 1889 |
Birth |
Ioan Dumitru Chirescu, composer
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