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| Born : | 10/06/1847 | Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor |
| Born : | 08/22/1847 | Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, composer |
| Born : | 03/03/1847 | Alexander Graham Bell, Scotland, inventor (telephone) |
| Born : | 03/23/1847 | Alexandru D Xenopol, Romania, historian |
| Born : | 05/30/1847 | Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence |
| Born : | 10/09/1847 | Andr‚ Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin) |
| Born : | 02/14/1847 | Anna Howard Shaw, US, suffragette |
| Born : | 10/01/1847 | Annie Besant, [Wood], England, philospher (Esoteric christianity) |
| Born : | 05/07/1847 | Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95) |
| Born : | 08/21/1847 | Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader |
| Born : | 11/24/1847 | Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula) |
| Born : | 04/13/1847 | Cornelis P˜nacker Hord˜k, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies) |
| Born : | 07/13/1847 | Corn‚lie Huygens, feminist |
| Born : | 02/27/1847 | Dame Ellen Alice Terry, England, actress/director (Imperial Theatre) |
| Born : | 06/11/1847 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement |
| Born : | 04/09/1847 | Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer |
| Born : | 10/31/1847 | Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (2-fasenmotor) |
| Born : | 11/02/1847 | George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author (violent revolutions) |
| Born : | 06/06/1847 | Gerben Postma, [Ids], Fries writer (Swealtsjeblommen) |
| Born : | 05/11/1847 | Godefroid Kurth, Belg historian (La cit‚ de Lige au moyen ƒge) |
| Born : | 08/01/1847 | Guido Papini, violinist/composer |
| Born : | 10/21/1847 | Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini) |
| Born : | 08/27/1847 | Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theology/bishop of Bridge |
| Born : | 12/22/1847 | Heihatjir“ T“j“, Japan, admiral (Russian-Japanese war) |
| Born : | 01/04/1847 | Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, politician |
| Born : | 06/08/1847 | Ida Sazton McKinley, 1st lady (1897-1901) |
| Born : | 06/30/1847 | Jacob T Cremer, min of Cologne/pres (Dutch Min of Finance) |
| Born : | 07/04/1847 | James Anthony Bailey, Detroit, circus impresario (Barnum & Bailey) |
| Born : | 12/07/1847 | James Deacon White, Canton NY, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi) |
| Born : | 09/05/1847 | Jesse James, Missouri, bank/train robber, son of a clergyman |
| Born : | 05/25/1847 | John Alexander Dowie, [Elijah the Restorer], US, evangelist |
| Born : | 02/25/1847 | John Watson, Canada, philospher (Objective Idealism) |
| Born : | 04/10/1847 | Joseph Pulitzer, Hungary, publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World) |
| Born : | 01/16/1847 | K lm n Miksz th, Hungary, writer (Wonderparaplu) |
| Born : | 07/02/1847 | Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer (tectonic geology) |
| Born : | 07/20/1847 | Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter |
| Born : | 03/27/1847 | Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910) |
| Born : | 10/02/1847 | Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf von Hindenburg, German president |
| Born : | 12/07/1847 | Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader |
| Born : | 10/09/1847 | Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond) |
| Born : | 02/11/1847 | Thomas Alva Edison, NJ, lit up your life (held 1200 patents) |
| Born : | 01/20/1847 | W R Pettiford, Founder (Alabama Penny Savings Bank) |
| Born : | 09/30/1847 | Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], feminist |
| Died : | 03/29/1847 | Auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies |
| Died : | 01/11/1847 | Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83 |
| Died : | 04/30/1847 | Charles L J, archduke of Austria/gov-gen (Austria-Netherland), dies |
| Died : | 01/14/1847 | Gov Bent, 5 others in US occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico |
| Died : | 09/23/1847 | Henri MG earl the Merode, Belg revolutionary (Souvenirs), dies at 65) |
| Died : | 11/04/1847 | Jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German pianist/composer, dies |
| Died : | 05/16/1847 | Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59 |
| Died : | 05/20/1847 | Mary Lamb, writer, dies |
| Died : | 06/09/1847 | Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orph‚e), dies |
| Special : | 01/24/1847 | 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price |
| Special : | 03/29/1847 | 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico [or 0327?] |
| Special : | 01/09/1847 | 1st SF newspaper published (California Star) |
| Special : | 01/15/1847 | 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC |
| Special : | 07/01/1847 | 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5› Franklin & 10› Washington, NYC |
| Special : | 02/04/1847 | 1st US telegraph co established in Maryland |
| Special : | 03/10/1847 | 1st money minted in Hawaii |
| Special : | 09/11/1847 | 1st singing of Stephen Fosters "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh) |
| Special : | 09/10/1847 | 1st theater opens in Hawaii |
| Special : | 03/01/1847 | Abolition (of the death penalty) Day |
| Special : | 07/01/1847 | Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 2nd asteroid Hebe |
| Special : | 05/05/1847 | American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) |
| Special : | 05/07/1847 | American Medical Association organizes (Phila) |
| Special : | 02/23/1847 | Battle of Buena Vista M‚xico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans |
| Special : | 02/22/1847 | Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army |
| Special : | 07/24/1847 | Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT |
| Special : | 06/14/1847 | Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide |
| Special : | 06/10/1847 | Chicago Tribune begins publishing |
| Special : | 01/14/1847 | Conspiracy in New Mexico against US |
| Special : | 06/22/1847 | Doughnut created |
| Special : | 10/18/1847 | English astronomer J.K. Hind discovers Flora, his 2nd asteroid |
| Special : | 07/02/1847 | Envelope bearing 1st US 10› stamps, still exists today |
| Special : | 12/03/1847 | Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star" |
| Special : | 04/28/1847 | George B Vashon becomes 1st black to enter NY State Bar |
| Special : | 07/20/1847 | German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf |
| Special : | 11/29/1847 | Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore |
| Special : | 08/13/1847 | J R Hind discovers asteroid #7 Iris |
| Special : | 10/18/1847 | J R Hind discovers asteroid #8 Flora |
| Special : | 07/01/1847 | K L Hencke discovers asteroid #6 Hebe |
| Special : | 07/26/1847 | Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society |
| Special : | 10/20/1847 | Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa |
| Special : | 10/01/1847 | Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet |
| Special : | 06/27/1847 | NY & Boston linked by telegraph wires |
| Special : | 04/05/1847 | Opera "Die Fledermaus" is produced (Vienna) |
| Special : | 11/25/1847 | Opera "Marta" is produced (Vienna) |
| Special : | 03/25/1847 | Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland" |
| Special : | 03/03/1847 | Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps |
| Special : | 07/24/1847 | Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC |
| Special : | 02/25/1847 | State University of Iowa is approved |
| Special : | 11/21/1847 | Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200 |
| Special : | 03/17/1847 | The opera "Macbeth" is produced (Florence) |
| Special : | 03/07/1847 | US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico |
| Special : | 09/14/1847 | US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma) |
| Special : | 02/28/1847 | US defeats M‚xico in battle of Sacramento |
| Special : | 01/30/1847 | Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco |
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