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Born :10/01/1845Adolf Oberl„nder, German painter
Born :03/10/1845Alexander III, Russian tsar (1881-94)
Born :02/26/1845Alexander III, St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94) (3/10 NS)
Born :05/30/1845Amadeus I FM, duke of Aosta/king of Spain (1870-73)
Born :08/06/1845Anthonie A Vorsterman of Oyen, genealogist/heraldicus
Born :04/24/1845Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919)
Born :02/14/1845Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion (1866)
Born :02/15/1845Elihu Root, (R)/US Sec of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912)
Born :01/15/1845Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman pres (National Educational Association)
Born :12/23/1845Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, dr (found Notre Dame Hosp Montreal)
Born :08/16/1845Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist
Born :05/12/1845Gabriel Urbain Faur‚, Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade)
Born :03/03/1845Georg Cantor, German mathematician (discover transfinite numbers)
Born :06/17/1845Hendrik P Staal
Born :10/26/1845Henry Waelput, Flemish composer/conductor (Forest, Stella)
Born :05/15/1845Ilja (Elias) Metsjnikov, USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)
Born :04/17/1845Isabel Barrows, US, editor/penologist (Conference on Negro Question)
Born :07/30/1845Jacob C van Marken, CEO (Calv‚-Delft)
Born :01/22/1845Jacob Verdam, philospher
Born :10/27/1845Josef V Sl dek, Czech poet (P¡sne Smutecn¡)
Born :11/25/1845Jos‚ Maria de Eca de Queiroz (Queir¢s), Portugese author (Contos)
Born :04/05/1845Jules M Cambon, French gov-gen of Algeria/ambassador
Born :06/07/1845Leopold von Auer, Hungarians/US violinist/violinist
Born :01/07/1845Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
Born :08/25/1845Ludwig II, mad king of Bavaria (1864-86)
Born :01/07/1845Paul Deusen, German philospher (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft)
Born :09/01/1845Paul S Methuen, English governor of Natal/Malta
Born :01/22/1845Paul Vidal de la Blanche, France, geographer
Born :10/22/1845Sarah Bernhardt, France, actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth)
Born :07/04/1845Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker
Born :08/15/1845Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)
Born :03/27/1845Wilhelm Konrad R”ntgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
Born :03/19/1845Willem H de Beaufort, historian/politician
Born :05/25/1845William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner (help find PAL)




Died :06/08/1845Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th pres (1828-37), dies at 78
Died :05/02/1845August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48
Died :03/11/1845John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed] dies in Allen County, Indiana
Died :09/04/1845Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher, dies at 82
Died :07/04/1845Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies
Died :04/25/1845Thomas Duncan, painter, dies

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Special :03/03/18451st US law overriding a presidential veto (John Tyler's)
Special :09/24/18451st baseball team is organized
Special :09/23/18451st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
Special :05/03/18451st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)
Special :05/20/18451st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
Special :11/04/18451st nationally observed uniform election day in US
Special :07/14/18451st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC
Special :12/08/1845Asteroid number 5, Astraea discovered (named for goddess of justice)
Special :03/05/1845Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
Special :03/03/1845Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery
Special :01/29/1845Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" 1st published (NYC)
Special :12/27/1845Ether 1st used in childbirth in US, Jefferson, Ga
Special :07/14/1845Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes & kills many
Special :05/28/1845Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
Special :05/03/1845Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
Special :03/03/1845Florida becomes 27th state
Special :06/12/1845George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country
Special :12/08/1845German amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 5th asteroid, Astra
Special :04/02/1845H.L. Fizeau & J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun
Special :06/01/1845Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
Special :03/26/1845Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
Special :12/08/1845K L Hencke discovers asteroid #5 Astraea
Special :04/29/1845Macon B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice
Special :06/04/1845Mexican-US war starts
Special :04/10/1845More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
Special :07/16/1845NY Yacht Club holds its 1st regatta
Special :10/10/1845Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
Special :11/15/1845Opera "Maritana" is produced (London)
Special :10/20/1845Opera "Tannh„user" is produced (Dresden)
Special :03/26/1845Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
Special :01/10/1845Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
Special :07/04/1845Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
Special :12/29/1845Texas admitted as 28th state
Special :10/13/1845Texas ratifies a state constitution
Special :07/04/1845Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
Special :01/23/1845Uniform US election day for president & VP authorized
Special :10/19/1845Wagner's opera Tannh„user performed for 1st time
Special :02/15/1845William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector

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