595 Historic Events for September 28
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| 1761 |
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Budan de Boislaurent, mathematician
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| 1767 |
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Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope
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| 1780 |
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Elie Decazes, France, Bourbon Restoration political figure
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| 1781 |
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9,000 American forces and 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown
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| 1785 |
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David Walker, Wilmington NC, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens)
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| 1785 |
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Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
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| 1787 |
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Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval
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| 1789 |
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Richard Bright, England, physician (Bright's Disease/nephritis)
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| 1789 |
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Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire
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| 1793 |
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Denis A Affre, archbishop of Paris (1840-48)
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| 1793 |
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Denis-Auguste Affre, Franc, archbishop/opponent of King Louis-Philippe
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| 1803 |
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Prosper M‚rim‚e, Paris France, playwright (Carmen)
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| 1807 |
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Arnold Henry Guyot, Switzerland, US geologist/geographer/meteorologist
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| 1811 |
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Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician
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| 1813 |
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Anton Wallerstein, composer
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| 1815 |
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Joachim Murats fleet sails from Corsica to Naples
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| 1815 |
Death |
Nicolas Desmarest, French geographer (Volcanos), dies at 90
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| 1819 |
Death |
Karl Haack, composer, dies at 68
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| 1819 |
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Jacob G de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist
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| 1820 |
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Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher
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| 1824 |
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Alfred Gilpin Jones, Weymouth NS, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06)
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| 1824 |
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Francis Turner Palgrave, Eng, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford)
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| 1825 |
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Rafael N£¤ez, Colombia, 3 times president (188?..94)
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| 1828 |
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Friedrich A Lange, Prussia, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism)
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| 1829 |
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Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston
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