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Born :11/29/1838Aeneas Mackay, Baron/Dutch minister of interior
Born :03/15/1838Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)
Born :04/05/1838Alpheus Hyatt, US, invertebrate paleontologist
Born :09/17/1838Anton Mauve, landscape painter
Born :09/18/1838Anton Mauve, painter/graphic artist/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh
Born :11/14/1838August Senoa, Croatian author (Zlatarevo zlato)
Born :04/19/1838August(us) Alleb‚, painter/lithographer
Born :06/17/1838Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Kapala-Kundala)
Born :06/27/1838Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (Anandamath)
Born :05/28/1838Basil Wilson Duke, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1916
Born :02/12/1838Charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1898
Born :01/04/1838Charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb] (famous short person)
Born :06/17/1838Chattopadhyaya/Bankim Chandra, Bengalese writer (Monastary of Delight)
Born :12/03/1838Cleveland Abbe, US, meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau)
Born :07/08/1838Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor (rigid dirigibles)
Born :07/23/1838Edouard [Judas] Colonne, composer/violinist
Born :06/23/1838Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Born :12/11/1838Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG)
Born :12/31/1838Emile Loubet, premier/president of France (1892, 1899-1906)
Born :02/18/1838Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist
Born :07/30/1838Eugen Richter, German parliament leader (liberal)
Born :03/03/1838George W Hill, US astronomer (phases of Moon)
Born :10/25/1838Georges Bizet, France, composer (Carmen)
Born :02/23/1838Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
Born :06/24/1838Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Cathederal Socialism)
Born :02/16/1838Henry Adams, US historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams)
Born :09/29/1838Henry Hobson Richardson, US Romanesque revival architect
Born :02/06/1838Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], Engld, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet)
Born :05/31/1838Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Wife at University)
Born :02/20/1838James Barbour Terrill, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Born :09/16/1838James J Hill, Canada, RR entrepreneur (Great Northern Railroad)
Born :05/10/1838James, 1st Viscount Bryce, historian/statesman
Born :11/07/1838Jean comte de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French author (L've future)
Born :11/06/1838John Grant Mitchell, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
Born :09/11/1838John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul
Born :10/08/1838John Milton Hay, politician (Union), died in 1905
Born :04/21/1838John Muir, US, naturalist, discovered glaciers in High Seirras
Born :09/14/1838John Pelham, Major (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Born :04/12/1838John Shaw Billings, US, librarian/army physician
Born :07/11/1838John Wanamaker, merchant (Wanamakers Dept Store)
Born :08/26/1838John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin (Pres Lincoln)
Born :04/26/1838John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin (Pres Lincoln), died in 1865
Born :05/10/1838John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln
Born :08/12/1838Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal
Born :11/13/1838Joseph F Smith, 6th pres of Mormon church
Born :03/31/1838L‚on Dierx, French poet
Born :09/23/1838Martin Woodhull Victoria Chaflin, US, feminist/reformer (Woodhull)
Born :01/06/1838Max Bruch, K”ln (Cologne), Germany, composer
Born :12/03/1838Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement
Born :05/24/1838Paul Laband, German lawyer
Born :02/22/1838Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun
Born :09/02/1838Queen Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii (1891-93)
Born :03/18/1838Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
Born :06/04/1838Servaas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flemish writer (Luit & flute)
Born :12/12/1838Sherburne W Burnham, US, astronomer (double territory)
Born :02/24/1838Thomas Benton Smith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1923
Born :04/28/1838Tobias Carel, Holland, advocate of world law (Nobel Peace Prize 1911)
Born :04/28/1838Tobias M C Asser, lawyer (Nobel 1911)
Born :09/23/1838Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, Ohio, feminist/reformer/free love
Born :01/01/1838William Hugh Young, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
Born :03/12/1838William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye)
Died :05/17/1838Charles-Mauricede Talleyrand-P‚rigord, statesman, dies
Died :06/07/1838Laure S-MP duchess d'abrants, French marshal Junot, dies
Died :03/16/1838Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64
Died :01/30/1838Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail
Died :09/01/1838William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 68
Special :08/18/18381st US marine expedition
Special :01/01/18381st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
Special :01/08/18381st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes, NJ
Special :09/18/1838Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden
Special :09/24/1838Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
Special :07/08/1838Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed
Special :12/16/1838Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa
Special :06/28/1838Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey
Special :07/07/1838Central American federation is dissolved
Special :09/05/1838Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands
Special :10/01/1838Civil Code enforced (-1/1/1992)
Special :08/01/1838Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas
Special :04/23/1838English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in NYC
Special :04/22/1838English steamship "Sirius" docks in NYC after Atlantic crossing
Special :04/27/1838Fire destroys half of Charleston
Special :09/03/1838Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor
Special :11/05/1838Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation
Special :06/12/1838Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
Special :02/25/1838London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
Special :11/30/1838Mexico declares war on France
Special :08/23/1838Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
Special :04/09/1838National Galley opens in London
Special :04/30/1838Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation
Special :01/08/1838Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out
Special :03/03/1838Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada
Special :01/06/1838Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
Special :04/08/1838Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to NYC)
Special :01/26/1838Tennessee becomes 1st state to prohibit alcohol
Special :06/12/1838Territory of Iowa organized
Special :03/08/1838US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)
Special :04/18/1838Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails

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