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| Born : | 08/20/1824 | Absalom Baird, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1905 |
| Born : | 07/20/1824 | Alexander Schimmelfennig, Brig General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 07/27/1824 | Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille) |
| Born : | 04/20/1824 | Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 |
| Born : | 07/07/1824 | Alfred Pleasonton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 |
| Born : | 05/23/1824 | Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 09/04/1824 | Anton Bruckner, Austria, Wagner disciple & monumental bore/composer |
| Born : | 10/26/1824 | Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brig General (Confederate Army) |
| Born : | 12/26/1824 | Augustus Louis Chetlain, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1914 |
| Born : | 02/08/1824 | Barnard Elliot Bee, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1861 |
| Born : | 03/02/1824 | Bedrich Smetana, Bohemian, composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau) |
| Born : | 03/15/1824 | Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Swedish Uprising) |
| Born : | 05/29/1824 | Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army) |
| Born : | 02/26/1824 | Carlos Calvo, Arg diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause) |
| Born : | 02/28/1824 | Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist |
| Born : | 05/10/1824 | Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
| Born : | 06/03/1824 | Charles Kinnaird Graham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 05/16/1824 | Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 |
| Born : | 03/05/1824 | Elisha Harris, US, physician/found American Public Health Assoc |
| Born : | 04/24/1824 | Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp designer |
| Born : | 09/28/1824 | Francis Turner Palgrave, Eng, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford) |
| Born : | 11/18/1824 | Franz Sigel, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902 |
| Born : | 07/23/1824 | Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1906 |
| Born : | 12/10/1824 | George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie) |
| Born : | 02/03/1824 | George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army) |
| Born : | 03/12/1824 | Gustave Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (Gesammelte Ashandlongen) |
| Born : | 04/25/1824 | Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, painter |
| Born : | 03/02/1824 | Henry Beebee Carrington, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912 |
| Born : | 10/06/1824 | Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book |
| Born : | 08/27/1824 | Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
| Born : | 03/30/1824 | Innis Newton Palmer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 09/01/1824 | Isaac Hardin Duval, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902 |
| Born : | 11/18/1824 | Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 |
| Born : | 03/05/1824 | James Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives) |
| Born : | 01/07/1824 | James Morrison Hawes, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 |
| Born : | 02/24/1824 | John Crawford Vaughn, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 |
| Born : | 02/28/1824 | John Creed Moore, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 |
| Born : | 08/21/1824 | John Sanford Mason, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 |
| Born : | 06/20/1824 | John Tyler Morgan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 |
| Born : | 09/21/1824 | Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brig General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 10/29/1824 | Joseph Horace Lewis, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1904 |
| Born : | 01/27/1824 | Jozef Isra‰ls, painter |
| Born : | 11/24/1824 | Karel MM Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist |
| Born : | 06/26/1824 | Kelvin, [William Thomson], British physicist (Kelvin Scale) |
| Born : | 03/09/1824 | Leland Stanford, (Gov/Sen)/found Stanford U |
| Born : | 05/16/1824 | Levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93) |
| Born : | 02/23/1824 | Lewis Cass Hunt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
| Born : | 12/17/1824 | Manning Ferguson Force, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1899 |
| Born : | 02/03/1824 | Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brig Gen (Confederacy), died in 1868 |
| Born : | 06/28/1824 | Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro (located speech center) |
| Born : | 09/04/1824 | Phoebe Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary) |
| Born : | 12/14/1824 | Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (Panth‚on) |
| Born : | 07/25/1824 | Richard James Oglesby, Union (Union volunteers), died in 1899 |
| Born : | 07/10/1824 | Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician |
| Born : | 10/19/1824 | Rufus Saxton, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908 |
| Born : | 02/10/1824 | Samuel Plimsoll, English parliament leader |
| Born : | 08/09/1824 | Simon Goodell Griffin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 04/05/1824 | Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet (Roman) |
| Born : | 10/23/1824 | Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
| Born : | 03/10/1824 | Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905 |
| Born : | 01/21/1824 | Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lt Gen 2nd Corps (ANV, Confed) |
| Born : | 12/17/1824 | Thomas Starr King, NY, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity) |
| Born : | 12/05/1824 | Titian James Coffey, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1867 |
| Born : | 09/24/1824 | Truman Seymour, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1891 |
| Born : | 07/08/1824 | Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brig General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 01/08/1824 | Wilkie Collins, English novelist (Woman in White) |
| Born : | 08/03/1824 | William Burnham Woods, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 05/09/1824 | William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army) |
| Born : | 02/17/1824 | William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1903 |
| Born : | 03/22/1824 | William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General (Confederate Army) |
| Born : | 02/07/1824 | William Higgins, discovered nature of spiral "nebulae" |
| Born : | 06/08/1824 | William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
| Born : | 09/27/1824 | William Nelson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
| Born : | 06/28/1824 | William Tatus Wofford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 |
| Born : | 08/14/1824 | William Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 |
| Born : | 05/08/1824 | William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua (1856-57) |
| Born : | 02/14/1824 | Winfield Scott Hancock, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
| Died : | 06/18/1824 | Ferdinand III JJ-B, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane, dies at 55 |
| Died : | 03/05/1824 | Jean JR de Cambac‚rs, French Minister of Justice, dies |
| Died : | 07/20/1824 | Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies |
| Died : | 04/19/1824 | Lord George Gorden Noel Byron, poet, dies |
| Died : | 09/16/1824 | Louis XVIII SX, earl of Province/king of France (1814-24), dies |
| Died : | 02/08/1824 | Rhijnvis Feith, mayor/writer (Zwolle), dies at 71 |
| Died : | 01/26/1824 | Th‚odore G‚ricault, French painter (Grand Derby d'epsom), dies |
| Died : | 01/10/1824 | Victor Emanuel I, king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies |
| Interest: | 03/29/1824 | [Luth] Commemoration of Hans Hauge, renewer of the Church |
| Special : | 11/21/1824 | 1st Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC |
| Special : | 01/21/1824 | Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa |
| Special : | 12/09/1824 | Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain |
| Special : | 05/07/1824 | Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony performed for 1st time |
| Special : | 02/10/1824 | Bol¡var named dictator by Congress of Per£ |
| Special : | 03/21/1824 | Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses |
| Special : | 08/15/1824 | Freed American slaves established country of Liberia |
| Special : | 12/01/1824 | House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams, |
| Special : | 02/04/1824 | J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public |
| Special : | 12/01/1824 | Jackson, WH Crawford & H Clay Adams eventually declared president |
| Special : | 09/26/1824 | Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives |
| Special : | 10/04/1824 | Mexico becomes a republic |
| Special : | 05/24/1824 | Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee |
| Special : | 11/02/1824 | Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams |
| Special : | 04/17/1824 | Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54ø 40' N |
| Special : | 11/15/1824 | Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland) |
| Special : | 11/07/1824 | St Petersburg flood |
| Special : | 11/19/1824 | Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000 |
| Special : | 03/11/1824 | US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair |
| Special : | 06/08/1824 | Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec |
| Special : | 01/28/1824 | William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40) |
| Special : | 08/14/1824 | general Lafayette returns to US |
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