English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in NYC

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Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64

Death

William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80

Death

Canada issues its 1st postage stamps

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Edwin Markham, US, poet (1st winner of Amer Acad of Poets Award 1937)

Birth

Auguste Laurent, chemist, dies

Death

Ernst L Wolzogen, German writer/founder (Cabaret šberbrettl)

Birth

Max K E Ludwig Planck, German physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918)

Birth

Dem convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery

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Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal

Birth

Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith

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Battle of San Antonio, TX

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Battle of Cane River, LA (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry)

Event

James Dearing, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 24

Death

Queen Victoria and Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel

Event

Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones)

Birth

Blossom Rock in SF Bay blown up

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Arthur Farwell, composer

Birth

1st Dutch test drive of steam tram

Event

Friedrich Preller, landscape painter, dies

Death

Guess Saleh, [Sarief Bastaman], Javanese painter, dies

Death

Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer (1912-22)

Birth

Otakar Sini, composer

Birth

Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Patience" produced in London

Event

Albert Coates, St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle)

Birth