435 Historic Events for August 10
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| 1823 |
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Charles Thomas Campbell, Brig General (Union volunteers)
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| 1827 |
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Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
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| 1831 |
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Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
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| 1831 |
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Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die
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| 1833 |
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Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
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| 1835 |
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Gyula Beliczay, composer
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| 1835 |
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Mob of whites and oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
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| 1836 |
Birth |
Jose Teodor Vilar, composer
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| 1841 |
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Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37
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| 1843 |
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Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies
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| 1845 |
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Kunanbajew, writer
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| 1846 |
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Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution
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| 1854 |
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J Scott Lidgett, London, theologist
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| 1856 |
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Paul Geisler, composer
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| 1856 |
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Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
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| 1857 |
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John Wilson Croker, politician
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| 1859 |
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George Staunton, writer
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| 1861 |
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Almroth Wright, Yorkshire England, bacteriologist
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| 1861 |
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Nathaniel Lyon, US Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43
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| 1861 |
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Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-Gen Lyon killed
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| 1862 |
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Battle of Nueces River TX
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| 1865 |
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Alexander K Glazunov, St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana)
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| 1866 |
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Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
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| 1867 |
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Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 1867
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| 1869 |
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O B Brown patents moving picture projector
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