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08/04/1816
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Israel Vogdes, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
Type: Birth
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08/04/1818
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Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1821
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1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
Type: Event
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08/04/1821
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William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declar of Independence), dies at 86
Type: Death
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08/04/1823
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Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, (Gov-Ind), died in 1877
Type: Birth
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08/04/1825
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Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (Middlesex and Surrey bat, famous biographer)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1830
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Plans for city of Chicago laid out
Type: Event
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08/04/1832
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Gaspar Nez de Arce, Spain, poet "Spanish Tennyson"
Type: Birth
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08/04/1839
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Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato and Platoism)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1843
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Flor van Duyse, composer
Type: Birth
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08/04/1846
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Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer
Type: Birth
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08/04/1850
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Frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68
Type: Death
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08/04/1855
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John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations"
Type: Event
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08/04/1856
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Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59
Type: Death
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08/04/1859
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Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1862
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US govt collects its 1st income tax
Type: Event
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08/04/1864
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Land and naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
Type: Event
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08/04/1870
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British Red Cross Society forms
Type: Event
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08/04/1870
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Harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roman in the Gloamin)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1873
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Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War
Type: Birth
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08/04/1875
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Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70
Type: Death
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08/04/1879
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Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris
Type: Event
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08/04/1881
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122F (50C), Seville, Spain (European record)
Type: Event
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08/04/1881
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Guy de Pourtals, Swiss/French writer (Nietzsche in Italy)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1883
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Ren "Sascha" Schickele, German writer/founder (Strmer)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1886
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Colombia adopts constitution
Type: Event
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08/04/1888
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Philip Greeley Clapp, composer
Type: Birth
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08/04/1889
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Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75
Type: Death
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08/04/1890
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Erich Weinert, writer
Type: Birth
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08/04/1891
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George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41
Type: Death
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08/04/1892
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Queen Wilhelmina and Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine
Type: Event
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08/04/1892
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Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
Type: Event
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08/04/1892
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Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer
Type: Birth
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08/04/1892
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Andrew and Abby Borden, axed to death in Mass (by Lizzie Borden?)
Type: Death
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08/04/1897
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Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
Type: Event
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08/04/1897
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Joseph Calleia, Malta, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda, Touch of Evil)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1900
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Arturo Umberto Illia, pres of Argentina (1963-66)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1900
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Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1900
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Elizabeth, Queen Mother Of England, King George VI's wife
Type: Birth
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08/04/1901
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Louie "Satchmo" Armstrong, New Orleans, jazz trumpeter (Hello Dolly)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1903
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Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
Type: Event
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08/04/1903
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Helen Kane, [Schroeder], Bronx NY, actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1904
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Theodore Newton, NJ, actor (Ace of Aces, Voltaire)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1904
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Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Pornography)
Type: Birth
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08/04/1904
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Arnold Krug, composer, dies at 54
Type: Death
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08/04/1905
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Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Jungian analyst/educator
Type: Birth
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08/04/1906
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Marie-Jos von Saksen-Coburg, Belgian Princess
Type: Birth
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08/04/1908
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Kurt Eichhorn, conductor
Type: Birth
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08/04/1908
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Leslie Wilkinson, journalist
Type: Birth
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08/04/1908
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Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist/author (Daily Express)
Type: Birth
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