395 Historic Events for September 20
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| 1807 |
Death |
Charles G van Brunswick-Wolfenbttel, wife of F Louisa W, dies
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| 1809 |
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Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General (Confederate Army)
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| 1810 |
Birth |
Alpheus Starkey Williams, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
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| 1810 |
Death |
Wouter J van Troostwijk, painter, dies at 28
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| 1820 |
Birth |
George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers)
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| 1820 |
Birth |
John Fulton Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
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| 1823 |
Death |
Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57
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| 1828 |
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Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory," premieres in Paris
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| 1830 |
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1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods
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| 1832 |
Birth |
Johann Joseph Abert, composer
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| 1833 |
Birth |
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italy, journalist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907)
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| 1833 |
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Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires
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| 1839 |
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1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
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| 1839 |
Death |
Jos‚ Gaspar de Francia, dictator of Paraguay (1816-39), dies at 74
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| 1842 |
Birth |
James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet)
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| 1846 |
Birth |
Agnes Tyrrell, composer
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| 1847 |
Birth |
Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist (Catechism Revolutionary)
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| 1850 |
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Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
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| 1852 |
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Edouard baron Empain, Belgian railway builder (Paris Metro)
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| 1854 |
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Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died
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| 1854 |
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British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea
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| 1859 |
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George Simpson patents electric range
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| 1859 |
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Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator
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| 1860 |
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1st British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)
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| 1861 |
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Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union
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