440 Historic Events for March 12
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| 1859 |
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Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
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| 1860 |
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Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
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| 1860 |
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Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
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| 1862 |
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Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
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| 1863 |
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Adolf A Wolfschoon, Cura‡ao, poet
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| 1863 |
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Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder)
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| 1865 |
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Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
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| 1867 |
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Last French troops leave Mexico
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| 1868 |
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Britain annexed Basutoland in Africa
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| 1868 |
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Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
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| 1868 |
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Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa
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| 1874 |
Birth |
Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer
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| 1875 |
Birth |
Julio Garreta, composer
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| 1877 |
Death |
Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52
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| 1877 |
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Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
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| 1877 |
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British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
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| 1877 |
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Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia
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| 1878 |
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Gemma Galgani, Italian saint
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| 1878 |
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Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer
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| 1880 |
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House Peters, England, silent film actor (Kansas Territory)
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| 1881 |
Birth |
Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
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| 1881 |
Birth |
V„in” A Tanner, premier of Finland (1926-27)
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| 1881 |
Birth |
Kemal Atatrk, 1st pres of Rep of Turkey
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| 1883 |
Birth |
Judge Jackson, composer
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| 1883 |
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Murrumgunarriman, [Twopenny], cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868), dies
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