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| Born : | 09/13/1866 | Adolf Meyer, US, psychiatrist/neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene) |
| Born : | 09/03/1866 | Alain Locke, famous African |
| Born : | 01/09/1866 | Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher |
| Born : | 12/12/1866 | Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913) |
| Born : | 04/14/1866 | Anne Mansfield Sullivan, US, educated Helen Keller |
| Born : | 03/21/1866 | Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer |
| Born : | 10/12/1866 | Antonie Waldrop, painter/lithographer |
| Born : | 05/24/1866 | Armando Frid, Argentina, live until July 28 1990 (124 years) |
| Born : | 07/28/1866 | Beatrix Potter, England, children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit) |
| Born : | 02/25/1866 | Beneditto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher |
| Born : | 04/06/1866 | Butch Cassidy, outlaw |
| Born : | 04/11/1866 | Carla Ford, Henry's wife |
| Born : | 09/21/1866 | Charles Jean Henri Nicolle France, bacteriologist (Nobel-1928) |
| Born : | 10/02/1866 | Charles de Souzy Ricketts, artist |
| Born : | 01/31/1866 | Emil Strauss, Germany, writer (Der nackte Mann) |
| Born : | 01/25/1866 | Emile Vandervelde, leader of Belgian BWP party |
| Born : | 05/17/1866 | Erik Satie, Honfleur France, composer (M‚moirs d'un Amb‚sique) |
| Born : | 05/16/1866 | Ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school) |
| Born : | 04/01/1866 | Ferruccio Busoni, Italy, pianist/composer |
| Born : | 07/25/1866 | Frederick F Blackman, English botanist |
| Born : | 02/09/1866 | George Ade, US, journalist, playwright, humorist (Fables in Slang) |
| Born : | 08/30/1866 | Georges Minne, Flemish sculptor |
| Born : | 05/23/1866 | Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist |
| Born : | 09/21/1866 | H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Bromley England, author (Time Machine) |
| Born : | 04/22/1866 | Hans von Seeckt, German general (Zukunft of the Reiches) |
| Born : | 10/07/1866 | Heinrich Federer, Switz, writer (Das letzte Stndlein des Papstes) |
| Born : | 04/19/1866 | Henri WA Deterding, oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell) |
| Born : | 02/05/1866 | Henri [Hendrik J] Hall, comic |
| Born : | 11/28/1866 | Henry Bacon, architect (Lincoln Memorial) |
| Born : | 12/02/1866 | Henry Thacker Burleigh, Erie Pa, black composer (Springarn Medal) |
| Born : | 02/26/1866 | Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical) |
| Born : | 09/02/1866 | Hiram Johnson, (Gov-Progressive-Cal) |
| Born : | 06/20/1866 | Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], lawyer/detective writer |
| Born : | 08/12/1866 | Jacinto Benavente y Mart¡nez, Spanish playwright (Nobel 1922) |
| Born : | 03/24/1866 | Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer |
| Born : | 09/01/1866 | James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97) |
| Born : | 04/03/1866 | James Herzog, South African general/politician |
| Born : | 10/12/1866 | James Ramsay MacDonald, (L) British PM (1924, 1929-35) |
| Born : | 02/16/1866 | Johann Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King) |
| Born : | 04/01/1866 | Johannes C H de Me˜ere, zoologist |
| Born : | 04/06/1866 | Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities) |
| Born : | 11/20/1866 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/1st commissioner of baseball |
| Born : | 06/13/1866 | Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Trade scholarship) |
| Born : | 06/20/1866 | Lord George ESMH Carnarvon, England, egyptologist (Toetanchamon) |
| Born : | 10/07/1866 | Martha McChesney Berry, US, founded Berry School for Children |
| Born : | 08/09/1866 | Mattheco Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole |
| Born : | 08/08/1866 | Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole |
| Born : | 01/15/1866 | Nathan S”derblom, Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel '30) |
| Born : | 02/07/1866 | Raf[ael] Verhulst, [Koen Ravestein], writer (Jesus of Nazarus) |
| Born : | 10/06/1866 | Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music |
| Born : | 01/20/1866 | Richard Le Gallienne, English writer (Maker of Gainborg) |
| Born : | 01/29/1866 | Romain Rolland, France, writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915) |
| Born : | 11/12/1866 | Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional) |
| Born : | 09/25/1866 | Thomas Hunt Morgan, US, biologist (Nobel-1933) |
| Born : | 12/04/1866 | Vassily V Kandinsky, Russ/Ger/Fr abstract painter (Dreamy Inspiration) |
| Born : | 12/05/1866 | Vassily V Kandinsky, Russ/German/French painter (Der blaue Reiter) |
| Born : | 02/28/1866 | Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russia, Symbolist poet (Pilot Stars) |
| Born : | 02/16/1866 | William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton, NJ, hall of fame baseball player |
| Died : | 07/25/1866 | Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies |
| Died : | 07/20/1866 | G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies |
| Died : | 08/22/1866 | George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies |
| Died : | 03/24/1866 | Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies |
| Died : | 03/29/1866 | Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies |
| Interest: | 03/29/1866 | [Ang] Commemoration of John Keble, priest |
| Interest: | 08/07/1866 | [Ang] Commemoration of John Mason Neale, priest |
| Interest: | 06/07/1866 | [Luth] Commemoration of Seattle, Chief of Duwamish |
| Special : | 09/25/1866 | (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing |
| Special : | 09/04/1866 | 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published |
| Special : | 03/02/1866 | 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Conn |
| Special : | 11/20/1866 | 1st natl convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org) |
| Special : | 10/06/1866 | 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000) |
| Special : | 12/11/1866 | 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean |
| Special : | 04/10/1866 | American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms |
| Special : | 07/27/1866 | Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long) |
| Special : | 05/08/1866 | Australian Rules Football is created |
| Special : | 05/24/1866 | Berkeley, Calif named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne) |
| Special : | 06/15/1866 | C H F Peters discovers asteroid #88 Thisbe |
| Special : | 07/26/1866 | Canoe Club opens in England |
| Special : | 12/21/1866 | Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre |
| Special : | 12/06/1866 | Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed |
| Special : | 07/21/1866 | Cholera-epidemic kills hundreds in London |
| Special : | 07/23/1866 | Cincinnati Baseball club (Reds) established |
| Special : | 04/09/1866 | Civil Rights Bill passes over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto |
| Special : | 03/21/1866 | Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes |
| Special : | 05/16/1866 | Congress authorizes nickel 5› piece (replaces silver half-dime) |
| Special : | 08/06/1866 | E Stephan discovers asteroid #89 Julia |
| Special : | 11/04/1866 | E Stephan discovers asteroid #91 Aegina |
| Special : | 01/04/1866 | F Tietjen discovers asteroid #86 Semele |
| Special : | 07/04/1866 | Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying « of Portland, Me |
| Special : | 01/09/1866 | Fisk University establishes |
| Special : | 04/06/1866 | G.A.R. established |
| Special : | 10/15/1866 | Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses |
| Special : | 06/13/1866 | House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks) |
| Special : | 11/20/1866 | Howard University founded (Wash, DC) |
| Special : | 03/19/1866 | Immigrant ship Monarch of Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die |
| Special : | 07/10/1866 | Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass |
| Special : | 06/07/1866 | Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Qu‚bec |
| Special : | 10/30/1866 | Jesse James gang takes bank in Lexington, Missouri ($2000) |
| Special : | 02/13/1866 | Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000) |
| Special : | 04/16/1866 | Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia |
| Special : | 11/04/1866 | Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia |
| Special : | 09/01/1866 | Last Navaho chief Manuelito, turns self in at Fort Wingate |
| Special : | 02/21/1866 | Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree |
| Special : | 02/04/1866 | Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible |
| Special : | 07/28/1866 | Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US |
| Special : | 05/16/1866 | N R Pogson discovers asteroid #87 Sylvia |
| Special : | 02/26/1866 | New York Legislature establishes NYC Metropolitan Board of Health |
| Special : | 04/16/1866 | Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Co office explodes |
| Special : | 05/30/1866 | Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premiers (Prague) |
| Special : | 11/17/1866 | Opera "Mignon" is produced (Paris) |
| Special : | 12/03/1866 | Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies |
| Special : | 11/20/1866 | Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle |
| Special : | 08/20/1866 | Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over |
| Special : | 04/02/1866 | Pres Johnson ends war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn & Va |
| Special : | 03/27/1866 | Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend |
| Special : | 01/20/1866 | Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends |
| Special : | 06/15/1866 | Prussia attacks Austria |
| Special : | 10/01/1866 | R Luther discovers asteroid #90 Antiope |
| Special : | 07/30/1866 | Race riot in New Orleans |
| Special : | 06/01/1866 | Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft Erie Ontario from US |
| Special : | 06/02/1866 | Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces |
| Special : | 07/20/1866 | Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy |
| Special : | 07/24/1866 | Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union |
| Special : | 08/10/1866 | Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria |
| Special : | 08/23/1866 | Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war |
| Special : | 04/01/1866 | US Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US |
| Special : | 07/25/1866 | US Grant named 1st general of Army |
| Special : | 05/16/1866 | US Treasury Dept authorizes nickel |
| Special : | 05/04/1866 | Woodward's Gardens opens to public |
| Special : | 11/30/1866 | Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago |
| Special : | 08/11/1866 | World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport, RI) |
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