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| Born : | 01/16/1834 | Albert Lindley Lee, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1907 |
| Born : | 10/10/1834 | Aleksis Kivi, Finland, playwright (Kullervo, Seitsem„n Veljest„) |
| Born : | 09/01/1834 | Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (I promissory note sposi) |
| Born : | 08/31/1834 | Amilcare Ponchielli, Paderno Italy, composer (I Lituani) |
| Born : | 04/26/1834 | Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist |
| Born : | 03/20/1834 | Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909) |
| Born : | 05/21/1834 | Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902) |
| Born : | 07/22/1834 | Daniel McCook,, Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
| Born : | 02/07/1834 | Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table) |
| Born : | 01/27/1834 | Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist (discovered periodic table of the elements) |
| Born : | 10/28/1834 | Dudley McIver DuBose, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883 |
| Born : | 07/19/1834 | Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet) |
| Born : | 06/19/1834 | Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina) |
| Born : | 09/17/1834 | Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/comedic writer |
| Born : | 02/16/1834 | Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Germany, naturalist (Causes of Evolution) |
| Born : | 03/22/1834 | Francis Asbury Shoup, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
| Born : | 10/19/1834 | Francis Channing Barlow, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1896 |
| Born : | 10/01/1834 | Francis Marion Cockrell, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1915 |
| Born : | 04/02/1834 | Fr‚d‚ric-Auguste Bertholdi, France, Statue of Liberty sculptor |
| Born : | 03/17/1834 | Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle |
| Born : | 09/15/1834 | Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member |
| Born : | 06/10/1834 | Hendrik Pierson, theologist (HP Foundation) |
| Born : | 07/02/1834 | Hendry P G Quack, lawyer/economist/secr Dutch Bank |
| Born : | 01/13/1834 | Horatio Alger Jr, Revere Mass, author (Lost at Sea, Work & Win) |
| Born : | 07/23/1834 | James "Cardinal" Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore |
| Born : | 07/14/1834 | James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist (Whistler's Mother) |
| Born : | 07/09/1834 | Jan Neruda, Czech writer/poet (Povidky Malostransk‚) |
| Born : | 11/08/1834 | Johann C F Z”llner, German astronomer (astro photography) |
| Born : | 03/24/1834 | John Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist |
| Born : | 09/09/1834 | Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant) |
| Born : | 11/21/1834 | Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1893 |
| Born : | 11/10/1834 | Jos‚ Hernandez, Argentina screenwriter (Martˇn Fierro) |
| Born : | 04/30/1834 | Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician |
| Born : | 12/16/1834 | L‚on Walras, French economist (border use theory) |
| Born : | 08/18/1834 | Marshall Field, founded Chicago-based store chain |
| Born : | 08/22/1834 | Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brig General (Confederate Army) |
| Born : | 01/27/1834 | Robert Sanford Foster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 11/17/1834 | Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
| Born : | 11/29/1834 | Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 12/23/1834 | Thomas R Malthus, English vicar/economist (moral restraint) |
| Born : | 11/10/1834 | Wager Swayne, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902 |
| Born : | 06/16/1834 | Wesley Merritt, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910 |
| Born : | 02/06/1834 | William Dorsey Pender, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
| Born : | 09/09/1834 | William MacRae, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1882 |
| Born : | 03/24/1834 | William Morris, England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist |
| Born : | 02/15/1834 | William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer |
| Born : | 04/21/1834 | William Rufus Terrill, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
| Died : | 09/24/1834 | A J Pedro I van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1822-31), dies |
| Died : | 09/16/1834 | Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Guillaume the Nassau), dies |
| Died : | 10/19/1834 | Cornelis Loots, accountant/poet (Volkswoede), dies at 69 |
| Died : | 03/12/1834 | Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (circle/posing F), dies at 33 |
| Died : | 05/20/1834 | Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier, nobleman, 1834, dies |
| Died : | 05/20/1834 | Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies |
| Died : | 08/01/1834 | Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies |
| Special : | 12/03/1834 | 1st US dental society organized (NY) |
| Special : | 02/26/1834 | 1st US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified |
| Special : | 02/18/1834 | 1st US labor newspaper, The Man, published, NYC |
| Special : | 10/14/1834 | 1st black to obtain a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter |
| Special : | 11/01/1834 | 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game) |
| Special : | 03/18/1834 | 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m long) |
| Special : | 06/02/1834 | 5th national black convention meet (NYC) |
| Special : | 06/30/1834 | Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) |
| Special : | 06/21/1834 | Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine |
| Special : | 06/14/1834 | Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine |
| Special : | 12/23/1834 | Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs |
| Special : | 01/05/1834 | Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell |
| Special : | 10/16/1834 | London parliament catches fire; historic documents burn |
| Special : | 08/18/1834 | Mt Vesuvius erupts |
| Special : | 06/25/1834 | Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published |
| Special : | 01/29/1834 | Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute |
| Special : | 07/05/1834 | Provisional government established in Oregon Country |
| Special : | 06/14/1834 | Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont |
| Special : | 03/28/1834 | Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US |
| Special : | 08/01/1834 | Slavery abolished in British empire |
| Special : | 11/14/1834 | William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 yrs 4 months |
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