439 Historic Events for August 2
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| 1831 |
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Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium
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| 1832 |
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1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
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| 1832 |
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Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc
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| 1832 |
Birth |
Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society)
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| 1832 |
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Black Hawk defeated (IA)
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| 1834 |
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Isa„c Capadose, lawyer/evangelist
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| 1834 |
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Fr‚d‚ric Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)
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| 1835 |
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Elisha Grey, inventor (Telephone)
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| 1849 |
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Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies
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| 1854 |
Birth |
Francis Marion Crawford, British author
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| 1858 |
Birth |
William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest)
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| 1858 |
Birth |
A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent of Netherlands
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| 1858 |
Birth |
Catherina van Rennes, composer
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| 1858 |
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A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent, dies at 76
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| 1858 |
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Govt of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
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| 1858 |
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1st mailboxes installed in Boston and NYC streets
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| 1861 |
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Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI
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| 1864 |
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2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
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| 1865 |
Birth |
Irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau and Romanticism)
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| 1865 |
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Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps and is lost
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| 1865 |
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Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
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| 1867 |
Birth |
Ernest C Dowson, British poet
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| 1868 |
Birth |
Constantine I, king of Greece
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| 1869 |
Death |
Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+
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| 1872 |
Death |
Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59
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