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Born :12/30/1869Adolphe Max, Belgian Rep (Lib)
Born :12/16/1869Albert F Pollard, British historian (Dict of natural biography)
Born :03/21/1869Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design
Born :04/05/1869Albert Roussel, Tourcoing France, composer (Rapsodie Flamende)
Born :03/29/1869Ales Hrdlicka, US, anthropologist/curator (US National Museum)
Born :11/22/1869Andr‚ Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947)
Born :08/14/1869Armas J„rnefelt, Vyborg Finland, composer (Berceuse)
Born :07/29/1869Booth Tarkington, US, novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons)
Born :06/04/1869Boudewijn LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Vlaanderen
Born :02/14/1869Charles Wilson, English physicist (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel)
Born :09/17/1869Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist (Nobel 1921)
Born :11/20/1869Clark Griffith, Mo, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees)
Born :04/07/1869David Grandison Fairchild, US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to US
Born :08/23/1869Edgar Lee Masters, poet/novelist
Born :09/23/1869Edgar Lee Masters, poet/novelist (Spoon River Anthology)
Born :12/22/1869Edwin Arlington Robinson, US, poet (Richard Corey)
Born :06/27/1869Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher (Mother Earth)
Born :09/06/1869Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria journalist (Bambi)
Born :03/21/1869Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame
Born :09/04/1869Geert A D Wumkes, Fries theologist/writer (Friese motion)
Born :09/20/1869George Robey, [George Edward Wade], comic
Born :06/10/1869Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary/headed La Gazette
Born :05/05/1869Hans Erich Pfitzner, Moscow Russia, composer (Krakquer Begrs)
Born :04/08/1869Harvey Cushing, US, neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies)
Born :02/11/1869Helene ELJ Kr”ller-Mller, founder (Kr”ller-Mller Museum)
Born :02/12/1869Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of OKW (VVD)
Born :06/22/1869Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (AR 1933-39)
Born :12/31/1869Henri Matisse, France, impressionist painter (Odalisque)
Born :04/12/1869Henri-D‚sir‚ Landru, French sex murderer
Born :12/24/1869Henri‰tte GO Roland Holst-Van de Schalk, poetess (Women in Forest)
Born :03/03/1869Henry J Wood, English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms)
Born :10/08/1869J Frank Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)
Born :08/23/1869James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer
Born :11/18/1869James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union)
Born :05/06/1869Jan R Slotemaker de Bru‹ne, clergyman/CHU-politician
Born :02/07/1869Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura)
Born :04/17/1869Johannes M Meulenhoff, publisher
Born :10/25/1869John Heisman, pioneering football coach/trophy namesake
Born :10/14/1869Joseph Duveen, England, art connoisseur (Elgin marbles)
Born :05/19/1869Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State
Born :08/27/1869Karl Haushofer, soldier/geographer
Born :07/04/1869Karl Seitz, president of Austria
Born :04/05/1869Karl Wagenfeld, Defeated German writer (Daud un Dwel)
Born :08/10/1869Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, writer (Symbolic Wounds)
Born :04/06/1869Louis Raemakers, cartoonist/painter
Born :10/02/1869Mahatma Karamchand Ghandi, Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist
Born :06/03/1869Maria Radulphus, inspector on Cura‡ao (Radulphus College)
Born :11/09/1869Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Canada actress (Caught Short)
Born :06/26/1869Martin Anderson Nex”, Danish poet/writer (Tabte Generation)
Born :09/23/1869Mary Church Terrell, famous African
Born :03/05/1869Michael von Faulhaber, cardinal/archbishop of Munich
Born :02/26/1869Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin
Born :07/14/1869Owen Wister, US, novelist (Virginian)
Born :01/28/1869Ozaki Koyo, Japan, novelist/essayist/haiku poet (The Heart)
Born :04/01/1869Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (De Droom)
Born :05/18/1869Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern
Born :06/06/1869Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor
Born :12/30/1869Stephen Leacock, Canada, economist/humorist/professor
Born :11/11/1869Victor Emmanual III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia
Born :01/18/1869Willem De Vreese, Flemish linguist/biblographer
Born :07/08/1869William V Moody, US poet (Death of Eve, Faith Healer)
Born :03/18/1869[Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British PM (C, 1937-40)
Born :03/24/1869mile Fabre, France, playwright, administrator of Com‚die Fran‡aise




Died :07/15/1869A J Hayne, black captain of Arkansas militia, assassinated
Died :03/01/1869Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, French poet (History of Girondins), dies
Died :04/01/1869Anthony GO Ridder van Rappard, Minister of Reformed Worship, dies
Died :07/28/1869Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies
Died :10/13/1869Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Fren writer (Tableau Historique), dies
Died :10/08/1869Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64
Died :11/12/1869Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies
Died :10/23/1869Jean B-J Tolbecque, Belgian composer/conductor, dies
Died :02/04/1869Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60
Died :03/08/1869Louis H Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65
Died :09/17/1869Peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus), dies




Special :
05/01/1869"Folies-Bergre" opens in Paris
Special :02/26/186915th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
Special :10/26/18691st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY)
Special :08/23/18691st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
Special :11/06/18691st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
Special :08/17/18691st international boat race (Thames River) (Oxford beats Harvard)
Special :04/18/18691st international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian
Special :10/01/18691st postcards are issued (Vienna)
Special :04/17/18691st pro baseball games-Cin Reds 24, Cin amateurs 15
Special :10/21/18691st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
Special :08/01/18691st voyage down Colorado River
Special :09/06/18691st westbound train arrives in SF
Special :12/08/186920th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
Special :06/05/18693rd Belmont Stakes, Fenian wins
Special :05/01/1869A colt is reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord, Ohio
Special :06/10/1869Agnes arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
Special :11/24/1869American Woman's Suffrage Association forms
Special :03/13/1869Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
Special :09/10/1869Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
Special :09/24/1869Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
Special :07/06/1869Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated
Special :02/03/1869Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
Special :10/09/1869C H F Peters discovers asteroid #109 Felicitas
Special :06/15/1869Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
Special :02/15/1869Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
Special :06/09/1869Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer (Phila)
Special :03/15/1869Cincinatti Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
Special :05/16/1869Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
Special :01/13/1869Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
Special :04/16/1869Ebenezer Bassett, 1st US Negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti
Special :01/18/1869Elegant Calif Theatre opens in SF
Special :01/20/1869Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before Congress
Special :05/01/1869Folies Bergre opens in Paris
Special :11/15/1869Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
Special :05/10/1869Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinential RR
Special :04/30/1869Hawaiian YMCA organized
Special :03/16/1869Hiram R Revels makes the 1st official speech by a black in the Senate
Special :10/16/1869Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing
Special :04/09/1869Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada
Special :06/08/1869Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks)
Special :02/02/1869James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade
Special :09/13/1869Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market
Special :02/27/1869John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
Special :02/23/1869Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
Special :07/15/1869Margarine is patented by Hippolye M‚ga-Mouris for use by French Navy
Special :06/15/1869Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout
Special :09/06/1869Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
Special :01/13/1869National convention of black leaders meets in Wash DC
Special :12/09/1869Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
Special :04/12/1869North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law
Special :09/22/1869Opera "Das Rheingold" is produced (Munich)
Special :06/21/1869Opera "Die Meistersinger" is produced (Munich)
Special :12/30/1869Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms
Special :04/02/1869R Luther discovers asteroid #108 Hecuba
Special :04/13/1869Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
Special :11/17/1869Suez Canal (Egypt) opens
Special :02/20/1869Tenn Gov WC Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
Special :02/19/1869US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized
Special :07/01/1869US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
Special :03/04/1869Ulysses Grant inaugurated as US president
Special :03/03/1869University of South Carolina opens to all races
Special :06/01/1869Voting Machine patented by Thomas Edison
Special :08/24/1869Waffle iron invented
Special :12/28/1869William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
Special :12/10/1869Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
Special :03/01/18694øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
Special :08/06/186953øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC

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