338 Historic Events for August 4
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| 1816 |
Birth |
Israel Vogdes, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
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| 1818 |
Birth |
Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers)
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| 1821 |
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William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declar of Independence), dies at 86
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| 1821 |
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1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
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| 1823 |
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Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, (Gov-Ind), died in 1877
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| 1825 |
Birth |
Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (Middlesex and Surrey bat, famous biographer)
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| 1830 |
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Plans for city of Chicago laid out
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| 1832 |
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Gaspar N£¤ez de Arce, Spain, poet "Spanish Tennyson"
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| 1839 |
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Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato and Platoism)
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| 1843 |
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Flor van Duyse, composer
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| 1846 |
Birth |
Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer
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| 1850 |
Death |
Frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68
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| 1855 |
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John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations"
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| 1856 |
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Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59
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| 1859 |
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Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920)
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| 1862 |
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US govt collects its 1st income tax
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| 1864 |
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Land and naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
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| 1870 |
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Harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roman in the Gloamin)
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| 1870 |
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British Red Cross Society forms
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| 1873 |
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Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War
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| 1875 |
Death |
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70
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| 1879 |
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Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris
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| 1881 |
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122øF (50øC), Seville, Spain (European record)
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| 1881 |
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Guy de PourtalŠs, Swiss/French writer (Nietzsche in Italy)
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| 1883 |
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Ren‚ "Sascha" Schickele, German writer/founder (Strmer)
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