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Born :07/06/1818Adolf Anderssen, Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66)
Born :03/13/1818Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
Born :04/29/1818Alexander II, Tsar of Russia (1855-81)
Born :11/04/1818Alexander Robert Lawton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
Born :12/21/1818Amalia, wife of king Otto of Greece
Born :05/27/1818Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons
Born :02/08/1818Austin Blair, Gov/MC (Union), died in 1894
Born :11/05/1818Benjamin Franklin Butler, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
Born :04/22/1818Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :08/05/1818Carnot Posey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Born :06/17/1818Charles Gounod, Paris, France, opera composer (Faust)
Born :04/08/1818Christaan IX, king of Denmark (1863-1906)
Born :12/23/1818David Addison Weisiger, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
Born :03/23/1818Don Carlos Buell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898
Born :10/18/1818Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
Born :07/30/1818Emily Bront‰, England, novelist (Wuthering Heights)
Born :06/21/1818Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer
Born :11/29/1818George Brown, Canada, publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (L) (1858)
Born :01/28/1818George Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905
Born :03/10/1818George Wythe Randolph, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1867
Born :11/03/1818Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1891
Born :09/17/1818Halfdan Kjeruif, composer (Kjerulf)
Born :10/15/1818Irvin McDowell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
Born :03/25/1818Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Born :02/10/1818Isham Green Harris, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1897
Born :11/09/1818Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)
Born :04/23/1818James Anthony Froude, historian
Born :12/30/1818James Cantey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1874
Born :12/24/1818James Prescott Joule, physicist (discovered conservation of energy)
Born :02/23/1818Jeremy F Gilmer, Maj Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept
Born :02/23/1818Jeremy Francis Gilmer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
Born :05/31/1818John Albion Andrew, Gov (Union), died in 1867
Born :04/23/1818John Gill Shorter, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1872
Born :10/08/1818John Henninger Reagan, Atty Gen (Confederacy)
Born :03/12/1818John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897
Born :01/11/1818John Reese Kenly, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
Born :07/10/1818John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Born :01/18/1818John Van Vloten, literary/theologist
Born :03/11/1818John Wilkins Whitfield, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
Born :06/21/1818Joseph Abel Haskin, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
Born :05/05/1818Karl Marx, philospher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital)
Born :04/05/1818Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :08/04/1818Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :08/13/1818Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist/feminist
Born :09/18/1818Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Born :08/01/1818Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer on Nantucket Island
Born :12/13/1818Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady (1861-65)
Born :07/14/1818Nathaniel Lyon, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
Born :02/12/1818Otto Ludwig, German writer (Die Heiterethei)
Born :05/28/1818P G T Beauregard, La, General in charge of capture of Sumter
Born :12/12/1818Paul Octave Hebert, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
Born :05/28/1818Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Gen (Confederate Army)
Born :09/12/1818Richard Jordan Gatling, US, inventor (hand-cranked machine gun)
Born :08/23/1818Rufus Ingalls, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893
Born :11/22/1818Samuel Gibbs French, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
Born :01/17/1818Sir Antoine Dorion, (L) joint premier of Canada (1858, 1863-64)
Born :03/28/1818Wade Hampton, SC, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1902
Born :08/18/1818William Farquhar Barry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
Born :05/20/1818William George Fargo, founder (Wells Fargo)
Born :02/06/1818William Maxwell Evarts, (Union), died in 1901
Born :01/31/1818William Raine Peck, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
Born :12/04/1818William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army)
Born :01/14/1818Zacharias Topelius, Finnish historical novelist (Surgeon's Stories)
Died :02/28/1818Adrian Loosjes Pzn, publisher/writer, dies at 56
Died :06/29/1818Carl P Fohr, German painter/cartoonist, dies at 22
Died :02/15/1818Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies
Died :08/28/1818Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies
Died :05/26/1818Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal/War Minister, dies
Died :09/18/1818Olaf Swaertz, botanist, dies
Died :05/10/1818Paul Revere, US patriot, dies
Died :08/22/1818Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85
Interest:02/13/1818[Ang] Commemoration of Absalom Jones, priest,
Special :12/24/1818"Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
Special :12/25/1818"Silent Night," by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr sung for 1st time
Special :12/25/18181st US performance of Handel's Messiah, Boston
Special :02/07/18181st successful US educational magazine, Academician, begins, NYC
Special :10/08/18182 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves
Special :10/20/181849th parallel established as border between US & Canada
Special :02/12/1818Chile gains independence from Spain
Special :05/11/1818Cincinatti Reds Hod Eller no-hits St Louis Cards, 6-0
Special :03/18/1818Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
Special :04/04/1818Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
Special :05/24/1818Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida
Special :04/07/1818Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians
Special :12/03/1818Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
Special :01/30/1818Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
Special :01/21/1818Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
Special :01/02/1818Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)
Special :04/28/1818Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain
Special :09/12/1818Richard J Gatling invents revolving machine gun
Special :11/21/1818Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
Special :04/16/1818Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot ammendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
Special :10/20/1818US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
Special :10/19/1818US & Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty
Special :04/14/1818US Medical Corp forms

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