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Born :02/07/1842Alexandre Ribit, premier France
Born :07/24/1842Ambrose Bierce, Ohio, writer (Nuggets & Dust)
Born :06/24/1842Ambrose Bierce, US, satirist (Devil's Dictionary)
Born :01/02/1842Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist
Born :10/28/1842Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
Born :03/07/1842Anne CAI of Diest, Belgian physician/feminist
Born :04/18/1842Antero Tarquinio de Quental, poet
Born :01/17/1842Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman Philosphy in Netherlands)
Born :04/25/1842Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila)
Born :05/13/1842Arthur Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Born :02/26/1842Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher & popularizer of astronomy
Born :10/28/1842Charles Boissevain, editor-in-chief General Trade journal (1885-1908)
Born :01/06/1842Clarence King, mining engineer (geologist)
Born :08/24/1842Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market)
Born :12/03/1842Ellen Henrietta Richards, US, chemist (Amer Home Eco Assn-1st Pres)
Born :05/08/1842Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist
Born :01/12/1842Fran‡ois Copp‚e, French poet
Born :02/04/1842Georg Brandes, [Morris Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic
Born :10/27/1842Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921)
Born :07/04/1842Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria, sociologist/judge/field marshal
Born :08/14/1842Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author
Born :03/10/1842Ina Donna Coolbrith, US, poet laureate of Calif
Born :09/20/1842James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet)
Born :03/30/1842John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher
Born :09/07/1842John H Zuckertort, German chess player
Born :05/12/1842Jules Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
Born :08/20/1842Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter
Born :02/25/1842Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou)
Born :09/05/1842Louis F J Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare)
Born :04/28/1842Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Brazil (1870-89)
Born :12/09/1842Pjotr A Kopotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist)
Born :02/03/1842Sidney Lanier, US, musician/poet (Hall of Fame)
Born :03/18/1842St‚phane Mallarm‚, French poet (L'Aprs-midi d'un faune)
Born :04/03/1842Ulric Dahlgren, Col (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Born :11/14/1842Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d 1959)
Born :08/28/1842Willem Linnig jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist
Born :11/04/1842William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1874
Born :01/11/1842William James, US, psychologist/philosopher
Died :05/15/1842Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76
Died :04/11/1842John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies
Died :07/24/1842John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies
Died :05/23/1842Jos‚ de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34
Died :09/10/1842Letitia Tyler, Pres Tyler's (1841-45) wife, dies at 51
Died :03/15/1842M Luigi CZS Cherubini, Italian director, dies
Died :12/01/1842Philip Spencer, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged
Died :01/08/1842Pierre, earl the Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba), dies
Died :03/24/1842Stendhal, [Marie-H Beyle], French writer (The Love), dies
Died :01/16/1842Thomas Freanby, Norwegian landscape painter, dies
Died :10/02/1842William Ellery Channing, cleric/writer, dies
Special :03/03/18421st US child labor law regulating working hours passed, Mass
Special :01/02/18421st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn
Special :02/15/18421st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
Special :01/01/18421st illustrated weekly magazine in US publishes 1st issue, NYC
Special :02/21/18421st known sewing machine patent in US, John Greenough, Wash DC
Special :01/06/18424,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
Special :11/04/1842Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill
Special :05/05/1842City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
Special :03/30/1842Dr Crawford Long, 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic
Special :01/12/1842Franciscans begin missionary work in Netherland Antilles
Special :11/17/1842Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston
Special :01/31/1842John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in the White House
Special :04/13/1842Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
Special :11/22/1842Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts
Special :12/07/1842NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
Special :06/16/1842Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die
Special :07/09/1842Notary Stamp Law passes
Special :11/17/1842Opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London)
Special :01/07/1842Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premiers in Paris
Special :08/01/1842Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens
Special :08/14/1842Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
Special :03/09/1842The opera "Nabucco" is produced (Milan)
Special :08/31/1842US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
Special :12/19/1842US recognizes independence of Hawaii
Special :08/09/1842US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Special :05/08/1842Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die
Special :09/04/1842Work on K”ln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus

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