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04/02/1840
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mile Zola, France, novelist (Nana, J'Accuse)
Type: Birth
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04/02/1841
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Clment Ader, French engineer
Type: Birth
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04/02/1845
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H L Fizeau and J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun
Type: Event
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04/02/1852
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Theodor Althaus, writer, dies
Type: Death
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04/02/1860
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1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
Type: Event
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04/02/1862
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Nicholas Murray Butler, US, Columbia U pres/pacifist (Nobel 1931)
Type: Birth
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04/02/1863
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Henry C Van de Velde, Flemish painter/architect (Art Nouveau)
Type: Birth
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04/02/1863
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Bread revolt in Richmond Virginia
Type: Event
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04/02/1864
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Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine, Arkansas
Type: Event
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04/02/1864
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Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana
Type: Event
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04/02/1865
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Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60
Type: Death
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04/02/1865
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Battle of Petersburg, VA (Ft Gregg, Sutherland's Station)
Type: Event
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04/02/1865
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CSA Pres Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA
Type: Event
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04/02/1865
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Battle of Ft Blakely AL and Selma AL
Type: Event
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04/02/1865
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Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39
Type: Death
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04/02/1866
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Pres Johnson ends war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn and Va
Type: Event
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04/02/1868
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Eduard Jacobs, singer/pianist (Dutch cabaret)
Type: Birth
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04/02/1870
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Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for US pres
Type: Event
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04/02/1872
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Samuel F B Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80
Type: Death
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04/02/1872
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George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine
Type: Event
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04/02/1875
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Walter Chrysler, founded car company (Chrysler)
Type: Birth
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04/02/1876
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Paul van Vlissingen, Dutch ship owner, dies at 78
Type: Death
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04/02/1876
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Philadelphia A's and Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Phila
Type: Event
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04/02/1877
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Arnold Schering, German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik)
Type: Birth
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04/02/1877
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1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
Type: Event
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04/02/1878
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1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper
Type: Event
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04/02/1883
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Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
Type: Event
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04/02/1884
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London prison for debtors closed
Type: Event
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04/02/1890
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Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliographer, dies at 70
Type: Death
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04/02/1891
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Max Ernst, Germany, painter/sculptor (founded surrealism)
Type: Birth
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04/02/1892
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Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dut baron/genealogist, dies at 79
Type: Death
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04/02/1894
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Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer (Swiss Air)
Type: Birth
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04/02/1894
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Rudolph P Cleveringa, Dutch anti-nazi lawyer
Type: Birth
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04/02/1900
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Heinrich Besseler, German musicologist
Type: Birth
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04/02/1900
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1st edition of The Volk published (Amsterdam)
Type: Event
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04/02/1901
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Anis Fuleihan, composer
Type: Birth
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04/02/1902
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Country singer Wynonna Judd's 1st appearance as a single act
Type: Event
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04/02/1902
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Soccer team MVV '02 forms in Maastricht
Type: Event
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04/02/1902
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1st motion picture theater opens (LA)
Type: Event
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04/02/1902
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Danilo Svara, composer
Type: Birth
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04/02/1905
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Cairo-Capetown railway opens
Type: Event
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04/02/1905
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Edmond Jouhaud, general
Type: Birth
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04/02/1905
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Kurt Adler, therapist/writer
Type: Birth
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04/02/1905
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Serge Lifar, Kiev, dancer, choreographer (Paris Opra Ballet)
Type: Birth
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04/02/1906
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South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England
Type: Event
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04/02/1908
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Buddy Ebsen, Belleville Il, actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones)
Type: Birth
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04/02/1908
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Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
Type: Event
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04/02/1909
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Jean Kurt Forest, composer
Type: Birth
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04/02/1910
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Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, dies at 79
Type: Death
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04/02/1910
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Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37
Type: Death
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