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| Born : | 05/23/1844 | 'Abdu'l-Bah , early Bah '¡ leader ('Azamat 7, 1) |
| Born : | 02/17/1844 | A Montgomery Ward, founded mail-order business |
| Born : | 10/29/1844 | Albert von Rothschild, Austrian banker |
| Born : | 03/27/1844 | Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer |
| Born : | 04/16/1844 | Anatole France, writer (Tha‹s, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921) |
| Born : | 03/31/1844 | Andrew Lang, Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book) |
| Born : | 03/07/1844 | Anthony Comstock, New Canaan Ct, anti-vice crusader/philatelist |
| Born : | 02/21/1844 | Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory) |
| Born : | 06/03/1844 | Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet |
| Born : | 05/03/1844 | Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist |
| Born : | 06/14/1844 | Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist |
| Born : | 05/02/1844 | Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents |
| Born : | 06/21/1844 | Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo) |
| Born : | 10/15/1844 | Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany, philosopher/anti-semite (šbermensch) |
| Born : | 08/30/1844 | Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum) |
| Born : | 06/01/1844 | Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1916 |
| Born : | 06/03/1844 | Garret Augustus Hobart, (R) 24th US VP (1897-99) |
| Born : | 10/12/1844 | George W Cable, American writer (Northampton Years) |
| Born : | 07/28/1844 | Gerard Manley Hopkins, England, poet (Windhover) |
| Born : | 02/01/1844 | Granville Stanley Hall, US, psychologist |
| Born : | 05/21/1844 | Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter |
| Born : | 05/20/1844 | Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French painter (Dream) |
| Born : | 10/11/1844 | Henry John Heinz, founded prepared-foods company (57 varieties) |
| Born : | 03/02/1844 | Hermanus J A M Schaepman, clergyman/Dutch politician |
| Born : | 07/31/1844 | Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist |
| Born : | 06/10/1844 | J Albert Neuhuys, painter (Hagse school) |
| Born : | 11/10/1844 | John SD Thompson, (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94) |
| Born : | 03/04/1844 | Josip Jurcic, Slavic writer (10th brother) |
| Born : | 11/25/1844 | Karl F Benz, German designer/auto manufacturer (4-taktmotor) |
| Born : | 10/24/1844 | Karl Lueger, anti semitic mayor of Vienna |
| Born : | 03/14/1844 | King Umberto I, of Italy (1878-1900) |
| Born : | 10/27/1844 | Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist (Nobel 1908) |
| Born : | 10/23/1844 | Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of M‚tis |
| Born : | 02/20/1844 | Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics) |
| Born : | 12/18/1844 | Lujo [Ludwig J von) Brentano, German economist |
| Born : | 01/07/1844 | Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, [St Bernadette of Lourdes], saint/visionary |
| Born : | 05/22/1844 | Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing) |
| Born : | 08/17/1844 | Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913) |
| Born : | 02/20/1844 | Mih ly von Munk csy, [Michael von Lieb], Hungarian painter |
| Born : | 08/19/1844 | Minna Canth, Finland, novelist/playwright (social evils) |
| Born : | 11/03/1844 | Mohammed V Resjad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18) |
| Born : | 03/06/1844 | Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) (NS 3/18) |
| Born : | 03/18/1844 | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade) |
| Born : | 03/10/1844 | Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist/composer (Spanish Dancing) |
| Born : | 10/03/1844 | Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine" |
| Born : | 03/30/1844 | Paul M Verlaine, France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur) |
| Born : | 07/11/1844 | Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia |
| Born : | 05/03/1844 | Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe) |
| Born : | 10/23/1844 | Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate (Eros & Psyche) |
| Born : | 07/01/1844 | Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika) |
| Born : | 02/18/1844 | Willem Maris, painter (Hagse School) |
| Born : | 07/22/1844 | William Archibald Spooner, London, reverend/inventor (spoonerisms) |
| Died : | 02/28/1844 | Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton |
| Died : | 04/04/1844 | Charles Bulfinch, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House), dies at 80 |
| Died : | 09/27/1844 | Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies |
| Died : | 05/08/1844 | Charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies |
| Died : | 07/23/1844 | Christian Gobrecht, 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office |
| Died : | 10/12/1844 | Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies |
| Died : | 08/30/1844 | Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's beads, dies |
| Died : | 08/14/1844 | Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies |
| Died : | 06/27/1844 | Hyrum Smith, founder/leader of Mormon chuch, lynched in Carthage Ill |
| Died : | 08/11/1844 | Jernej Kopitar, filmologist/censor (Slavic Grammatica), dies at 63 |
| Died : | 07/27/1844 | John Dalton, physicist/chemist, dies |
| Died : | 06/27/1844 | Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader of Mormon chuch, lynched at 38 |
| Died : | 06/03/1844 | Louis-Antoine, the Bourbon, French duke of Angoulˆme, dies |
| Died : | 02/27/1844 | Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer, diplomat, statesman, & financier, dies |
| Died : | 02/28/1844 | Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton |
| Died : | 05/24/1844 | William Crockford, clubman/gambler, dies |
| Interest: | 05/23/1844 | [Bah '¡] Declaration of Bab (festival) ('Azamat 7, 1) |
| Special : | 07/30/1844 | 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club |
| Special : | 12/11/1844 | 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct |
| Special : | 08/29/1844 | 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win |
| Special : | 05/23/1844 | Declaration of B b (Bah '¡ festival) ('Azamat 7, 1) |
| Special : | 02/27/1844 | Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day) |
| Special : | 07/27/1844 | Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC |
| Special : | 06/15/1844 | Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber |
| Special : | 12/04/1844 | James K Polk elected president of US |
| Special : | 07/29/1844 | NY Yacht Club forms |
| Special : | 12/30/1844 | Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg) |
| Special : | 03/21/1844 | Origin of Bah '¡ Era-Bah '¡ calendar starts here (Bah 1, 1) |
| Special : | 01/25/1844 | Recontre between Reps Weller & Shriver, US House of Representative |
| Special : | 05/27/1844 | Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line |
| Special : | 05/24/1844 | Samuel FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph msg) |
| Special : | 05/01/1844 | Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message |
| Special : | 11/06/1844 | Spain grants Dominican Rep independence |
| Special : | 03/09/1844 | The opera "Hernani" is produced (Venice) |
| Special : | 06/26/1844 | US pres John Tyler marries Julia Gardiner in NYC |
| Special : | 05/01/1844 | Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate |
| Special : | 06/06/1844 | Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) founded in London |
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