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Born :05/27/1837"Wild Bill" Hickok, [James Butler], cowboy/scout
Born :12/18/1837A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/Dutch party founder (CVP)
Born :10/29/1837Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-12)
Born :12/26/1837Adm George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila
Born :05/29/1837Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU)
Born :04/05/1837Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)
Born :01/04/1837Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)
Born :03/14/1837Charles Ammi Cutter, librarian, originated Cutter system
Born :12/02/1837Charles Garrison Harker, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Born :02/26/1837Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice
Born :12/25/1837Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner
Born :11/17/1837David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curaao
Born :11/17/1837Derk J A Haspels, actor
Born :02/05/1837Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
Born :06/16/1837Eli Long, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
Born :08/30/1837Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)
Born :10/14/1837Ellison Capers, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1908
Born :07/30/1837Elon John Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Born :08/16/1837Emile AH Seipgens, priest/brewery/literature
Born :04/11/1837Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861
Born :05/31/1837Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror)
Born :02/17/1837Francis Jay Herron, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
Born :04/21/1837Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
Born :10/18/1837Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter
Born :04/24/1837Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)
Born :03/18/1837Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd & 24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)
Born :08/27/1837Heinrich Urban, composer
Born :03/07/1837Henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)
Born :05/02/1837Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)
Born :04/15/1837Horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921
Born :02/07/1837James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary
Born :09/02/1837James Harrison Wilson, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1925
Born :10/26/1837James Lawlor Kiernan, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
Born :01/16/1837James Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
Born :05/23/1837James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Born :04/03/1837John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)
Born :12/19/1837John Carpenter Carter, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Born :04/17/1837John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel)
Born :11/28/1837John Wesley Hyatt, inventor (celluloid)
Born :11/23/1837John van der Waals, Hol, physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid & Gas States)
Born :06/26/1837Martin Davis Hardin II, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1923
Born :01/02/1837Mily Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer
Born :06/08/1837Moriz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf)
Born :06/22/1837Paul Morphy, New Orleans, greatest chess player of all time (1857-61)
Born :09/16/1837Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61)
Born :03/24/1837Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium
Born :03/19/1837Robert Daniel Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
Born :05/27/1837Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
Born :03/31/1837Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA
Born :08/11/1837Sadi Carnot, engineer, French president (1887-94); assassinated
Born :02/17/1837Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister of child labor
Born :12/24/1837Sissi, Emperor of Austria
Born :06/30/1837Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
Born :03/31/1837Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Born :05/31/1837Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Born :06/26/1837Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Born :06/17/1837Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863
Born :07/31/1837William Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865
Born :03/01/1837William Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)
Born :05/31/1837William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
Born :12/14/1837William Wells, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Born :01/19/1837William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)
Born :12/09/1837mile Waldteufel, Strasbourg France, waltz composer (The Skaters)
Died :06/19/1837Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle
Died :01/29/1837Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel
Died :10/09/1837Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
Died :04/17/1837Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies
Died :11/07/1837Elah P Lovejoy, publisher, murdered at 34, by pro-slavery mob
Died :01/20/1837John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84
Died :09/16/1837Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies
Died :08/01/1837Walter Geikie, painter, dies
Died :06/20/1837William IV, King of England, dies
Special :10/01/1837"Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)
Special :05/09/1837"Sherrod" burns in Mississipi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
Special :06/13/18371st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
Special :02/25/18371st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
Special :02/08/18371st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
Special :08/05/18371st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY
Special :02/11/1837American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
Special :12/25/1837Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
Special :12/29/1837Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
Special :06/17/1837Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
Special :04/19/1837Cheyney State University founded
Special :10/31/1837Collision of river boat Monmouth & Trement on Miss; 300 die
Special :01/22/1837Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
Special :06/20/1837England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
Special :01/26/1837Michigan admitted as 26th US state
Special :11/08/1837Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
Special :05/31/1837NY's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in US
Special :09/06/1837Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)
Special :02/13/1837Riot in NY over high price of flour
Special :12/29/1837Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
Special :10/09/1837Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100
Special :11/21/1837Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
Special :10/01/1837Treaty with Winnebago Indians
Special :07/27/1837US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
Special :03/03/1837US president A Jackson & Congress recognized republic of Texas
Special :03/04/1837Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American

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