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Born :01/30/1829Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1910
Born :02/14/1829Alfred Iverson Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
Born :09/12/1829Anselm Feuerbach, German painter
Born :11/16/1829Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer
Born :11/28/1829Anton Rubinstein, Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer (Omitri Doskoy)
Born :10/15/1829Asaph Hall, discovered satellites of Mars (Phobos & Deimos)
Born :07/26/1829August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94) (Nobel-1909)
Born :09/07/1829August Kekule von Stradonitz, discovered structure of benzene ring
Born :09/29/1829Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
Born :03/02/1829Carl Schurz, Major General (Union volunteers)journalist
Born :03/14/1829Charles Charlesworth, England (dies at 7 of old age)
Born :09/12/1829Charles Dudley Warner, Mass, newspaperman/author (Being a Boy)
Born :10/18/1829Charles Sidney Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Born :10/27/1829Christopher Columbus Andres, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :05/09/1829Ciro Pinsuti, pianist/composer
Born :10/10/1829Dandridge McRae, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
Born :06/07/1829Eduard F W Pflger, German physiologist (Ademhalings Quotient)
Born :09/07/1829Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, US, geologist (Geograph Survey 1859-86)
Born :09/08/1829George Crook, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
Born :04/24/1829George Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
Born :02/13/1829Gerard Keller, writer (Netherlands Spectator)
Born :09/29/1829Giles Alexander Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
Born :12/03/1829Green Berry Raum, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
Born :12/27/1829James Clay Rice, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Born :09/01/1829James Conner, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
Born :09/24/1829James St Clair Morton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Born :02/18/1829Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Born :06/12/1829Johanna Spyri, Switzerland, writer (Heidi)
Born :06/06/1829John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
Born :06/08/1829John Everett Millais, England, painter (Order of Release)
Born :08/12/1829John Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
Born :12/14/1829John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office
Born :02/01/1829John Potts Slough, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
Born :02/21/1829Johnson Hagood, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
Born :01/03/1829Konrad Duden, German linguist (Der grosse Duden)
Born :05/30/1829Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
Born :05/08/1829Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
Born :10/18/1829Lucius Marshall Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Born :04/15/1829Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon
Born :08/05/1829Milo Smith Hascall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1904
Born :01/21/1829Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden (1872-1907)/Norway (-1905)/poet
Born :05/06/1829Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England
Born :07/08/1829Pierre A Vicomte de Ponson du Terrail, French serial writer
Born :03/29/1829Ritta & Christina, Siamese twins, in Sardinia
Born :07/16/1829Robert Brown Potter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
Born :03/29/1829Robert Emmett Rodes, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Born :10/30/1829Roscoe Conkling, MC (Union), died in 1888
Born :11/08/1829Samuel Wylie Crawford, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
Born :09/08/1829Seth Maxwell Barton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
Born :08/07/1829Thomas Ewing Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1896
Born :01/09/1829Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright (Caste)
Born :02/11/1829William Anderson Pile, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
Born :04/10/1829William Booth, founded Salvation Army
Born :09/25/1829William Michael Rossetti, civil servant
Born :11/24/1829William Passmore Carlin, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
Born :03/18/1829William Robertson Boggs, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
Born :09/22/1829William Worth Belknap, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Died :02/24/1829Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
Died :02/16/1829Fran‡ois-J Gossec, Belgian/French composer (Messe of Morts), dies
Died :04/30/1829George Washington Adams, son of John Q Adams, dies on City Is NYC
Died :05/29/1829Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lam), dies
Died :06/27/1829James Smithson, dies, his will established Smithsonian Institute
Died :02/10/1829Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68
Died :10/29/1829Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist, dies
Died :11/13/1829Sam Patch, loses his live in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls
Died :05/10/1829Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies
Died :01/28/1829William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh
Died :05/16/1829William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56
Special :08/09/1829"Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
Special :06/08/18291st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool
Special :12/21/18291st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
Special :07/04/1829Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
Special :04/09/1829Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200
Special :10/17/1829Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens
Special :04/13/1829English Parliament grants freedom of religion to Catholics
Special :11/20/1829Jews are expelled from Russia's Nikolayev & Sevastopol
Special :05/15/1829Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
Special :09/29/1829London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty
Special :02/02/1829Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does œ60,000 damage
Special :03/02/1829New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
Special :03/16/1829Ohio authorizes high school night classes
Special :08/31/1829Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
Special :09/14/1829Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
Special :05/24/1829Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate
Special :07/07/1829Royal Military Chapel forms
Special :09/24/1829Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
Special :09/29/1829Scotland Yard formed in London
Special :08/16/1829Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
Special :10/16/1829Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
Special :03/04/1829Unruly crowd mobs White House during Pres Jackson inaugural ball
Special :09/28/1829Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston
Special :07/23/1829William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)

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