355 Historic Events for March 16
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| 1829 |
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Ohio authorizes high school night classes
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| 1830 |
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London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)
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| 1830 |
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New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
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| 1832 |
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Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer)
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| 1833 |
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Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
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| 1834 |
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HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
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| 1836 |
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Texas approves a constitution
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| 1836 |
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Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)
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| 1838 |
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Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64
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| 1839 |
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Ren‚ F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
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| 1841 |
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F‚lix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49
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| 1843 |
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Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65
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| 1849 |
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James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
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| 1850 |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
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| 1856 |
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E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
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| 1861 |
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Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
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| 1861 |
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Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
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| 1862 |
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Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles
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| 1865 |
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Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
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| 1867 |
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Benjamin Hanby, composer, dies at 33
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| 1868 |
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Maxim Gorki, USSR, playwright (The Lower Depths) [3/28 NS]
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| 1869 |
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Hiram R Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate
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| 1871 |
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1st fertilizer law enacted
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| 1872 |
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1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
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| 1873 |
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Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
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