406 Historic Events for February 7
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| 1875 |
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Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer
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| 1875 |
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Walter Courvoisier, composer
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| 1876 |
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Pres Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
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| 1877 |
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1st Guernsey Cattle Club organizes (NYC)
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| 1877 |
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Feliks Nowowiejski, composer
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| 1877 |
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Godfrey H Hardy, England, number theorist
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| 1877 |
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Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs (1929-..)
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| 1878 |
Birth |
Ossip Gabrilovich, composer
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| 1878 |
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Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85
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| 1881 |
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Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces
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| 1881 |
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Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73
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| 1882 |
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Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
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| 1883 |
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Eubie Blake, ragtime composer/pianist (Memories of You)
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| 1883 |
Birth |
Paul de Backer, Belgian radiologist
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| 1883 |
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Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger
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| 1884 |
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Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
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| 1885 |
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Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel 1930)
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| 1889 |
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Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF
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| 1891 |
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Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
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| 1891 |
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Joachim Stutschewsky, composer
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Jacob Paludan, Danish pharmacist/writer (Jírgen Stein)
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Harold Hoffman, South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ)
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| 1897 |
Birth |
Quincy Porter, New Haven Ct, composer
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| 1897 |
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Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49
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| 1899 |
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Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
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