428 Historic Events for August 15
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| 1864 |
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Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
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| 1864 |
Death |
Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies
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| 1865 |
Birth |
Johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga)
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| 1866 |
Birth |
Charles-Jean Vall‚e-Poussin, mathematician (d'analyse)
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| 1867 |
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2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
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| 1870 |
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Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado
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| 1872 |
Birth |
Harold Fraser-Simson, composer
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| 1872 |
Birth |
Rubin Goldmark, composer
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| 1874 |
Birth |
Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert
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| 1875 |
Birth |
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)
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| 1876 |
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US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
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| 1876 |
Birth |
Aleksandar Belic, Serb linguist
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| 1878 |
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Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general (White Armies, WW II)
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| 1879 |
Birth |
Ethel Barrymore, Phila, actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green)
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| 1885 |
Birth |
Mary Nash, Troy NY, actress (Phila Story, Till the Clouds Roll By)
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| 1885 |
Birth |
Edna Ferber, author, playwright
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| 1885 |
Birth |
Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer
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| 1886 |
Birth |
Bill Whitty, cricketer (Australian left-arm bowler 1909-12)
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| 1886 |
Event |
Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game
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| 1887 |
Birth |
Edna Ferber, US, author (American Beauty, Cimarron)
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| 1887 |
Death |
Me‹r Aron Goldschmidt, Danish writer (Ravnen, Hjemlís), dies at 67
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| 1888 |
Birth |
Albert Spalding, composer
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| 1888 |
Birth |
T E Lawrence Tremadoc, [Lawrence of Arabia], Wales, soldier/writer
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| 1890 |
Birth |
Jacques Ibert, Paris France, composer (Escales)
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| 1892 |
Birth |
Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist (Nobel 1929)
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