400 Historic Events for July 6
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| 1782 |
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Luis [Philippus] Brion, Cura‡ao commander of Colombian fleet
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| 1785 |
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Congress resolves US currency named "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage
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| 1785 |
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William J Hooker, English botanist/director (Kew Gardens)
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| 1787 |
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French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax
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| 1787 |
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Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede
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| 1793 |
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Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/min of Internal Affairs (1848-49)
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| 1795 |
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Georg Gottfried Petri, composer, dies at 79
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| 1796 |
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Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55)
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| 1798 |
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US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... and removed as alien enemies"
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| 1800 |
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Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer
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| 1801 |
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Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British
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| 1814 |
Birth |
Justus McKinstry, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
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| 1816 |
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Philipp Meissner, composer, dies at 67
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| 1818 |
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Adolf Anderssen, Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66)
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| 1821 |
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Edward Winston Pettus, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
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| 1832 |
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Maximilian F J, archduke of Austria/Emperor of Mexico
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| 1837 |
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Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer
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| 1840 |
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Christian Hebbel's "Judith," premieres in Berlin
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| 1848 |
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Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
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| 1852 |
Birth |
John Albert Delany, composer
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| 1853 |
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National Black convention meets (Rochester NY)
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| 1853 |
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William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel," 1st novel by black American
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| 1854 |
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1st Republican state convention (Ripon Wisc)
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| 1856 |
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Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail/PTT
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| 1858 |
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Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
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