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Born :12/21/1872Albert P Terhune, US, novelist (Lad, a Dog)
Born :05/20/1872Albert Steinrck, German actor
Born :01/06/1872Alexander Scriabin, Moscow, hallucinogenic composer (Prometheus)
Born :06/06/1872Alexandra, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
Born :07/13/1872Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician/representative of people
Born :03/31/1872Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist, founder of Sinn F‚in
Born :08/21/1872Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist (Salome)
Born :05/18/1872Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950)
Born :07/04/1872Calvin Coolidge, [Silent Cal], Plymouth Vt, (R) 29th pres (1923-29)
Born :09/25/1872Charles Blake Cochran, impresario
Born :04/25/1872Charles Burgess Fry, cricketer/writer
Born :05/31/1872Charles G Abbot, US, astronomer (Constant Sun)
Born :07/30/1872Clementine, Princess of Belgium, wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte
Born :09/04/1872Darius Milhaud, Aix-en-Provence France, composer (Maximilien)
Born :07/22/1872David D Salas, Antillian writer (Josefina)
Born :01/04/1872Edmund Rumple, Austria, auto/airplane builder
Born :01/16/1872Edward G Craig, actor/director (On the art o/t theatre)
Born :10/27/1872Emily Post, authority on social behavior, writer (Etiquette)
Born :11/11/1872Frederick A Stock, Jlich, Germany, conductor (Theodore Thomas Orch)
Born :05/02/1872GG van der Hoeven, head director (NRC)
Born :07/26/1872George Louis Beer, historian (authority on British colonies)
Born :08/03/1872Haakon VII, Charlottenlund Denmark, King of Norway (1905-57)
Born :10/11/1872Harlan Fiske Stone, NH, Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (41-46)
Born :12/05/1872Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player
Born :09/16/1872Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, Dutch/Flemish actress (Rose Kate)
Born :05/21/1872Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
Born :05/01/1872Hugo Alfv‚n, Stockholm Sweden, composer (Midsommarvaka)
Born :10/01/1872Isra‰l Querido, writer (Menschenwee)
Born :12/07/1872Johan Huizinga, culture historian (Homo Ludens)
Born :10/08/1872John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone)
Born :02/24/1872John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
Born :01/21/1872Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
Born :10/18/1872Josephine CMA, princess of Belgium
Born :07/15/1872Jos‚ E Rodo, Uruguay, writer (Motivos the Proteo)
Born :07/15/1872Jos‚ Enrique Rod¢, Montevideo, philosopher/educator/essayist
Born :03/28/1872Jos‚ Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general (Morocco)
Born :01/27/1872Learned Hand, Albany NY, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals)
Born :12/20/1872Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer
Born :07/01/1872Louis Bl‚riot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel
Born :12/10/1872Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves)
Born :04/09/1872L‚on Blum, French premier (People's front govt)
Born :11/11/1872Maude K Adams, US, actress (Baldwin's Theatre)
Born :09/20/1872Maurice Gamelin, French generalissimo
Born :08/24/1872Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review)
Born :02/07/1872Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister
Born :03/13/1872Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
Born :03/08/1872Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
Born :06/27/1872Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet/novelist (Oak & Ivory)
Born :01/18/1872Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], France, writer (Petit ami)
Born :04/04/1872Pauline the Cock-Manifarges, singer
Born :03/07/1872Piet Mondrian, Holland, abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
Born :12/28/1872Pio Baroja Y Nessa, San Sebastion Spain, writer (Caminode Parfecci¢n)
Born :10/12/1872Ralph Vaughan Williams, Down Amp England, composer (Hugh the Drover)
Born :09/10/1872Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, India, cricketer/politician
Born :07/16/1872Roald Amundsen, Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole
Born :11/15/1872Robert Markies de Flers, French author (L'habit vert)
Born :03/19/1872Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director
Born :03/31/1872Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet)
Born :03/25/1872Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina)
Born :03/03/1872Wee Willie Keeler, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles); hit .432 in 1897
Born :05/31/1872William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist (Don Quixote)
Born :04/07/1872William Monroe Trotter, famous African
Born :01/31/1872Zane Grey, American West novelist (Spirit of the Border)




Died :05/01/1872Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, dies
Died :07/18/1872Benito Ju rez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66
Died :09/18/1872Charles XV Louis E, king of Sweden/Norway (1859-72), dies
Died :11/29/1872Cornelius Kreighoff, Canadian, dies
Died :10/02/1872Eberhard F Walcker, organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt A/M), dies
Died :07/28/1872Friedrich Kaiser, astronomer (Kaiser-Compass), dies
Died :04/27/1872Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70
Died :05/19/1872Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at 44
Died :05/24/1872Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painter, dies
Died :09/13/1872Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philospher (Der Mensch ist), dies at 68
Died :04/02/1872Samuel F B Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80
Died :11/23/1872Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), US poet/Comanche chief, dies
Died :10/23/1872Th‚ophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies
Interest:04/01/1872[Ang] Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, priest
Interest:01/02/1872[Lutheran] Commemoration of Johann Loehe, pastor




Special :09/29/1872"3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village
Special :03/07/1872-8ø F in Boston, MA
Special :08/23/18721st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea
Special :04/10/18721st National black convention meets in New Orleans
Special :12/11/18721st black US gov took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
Special :02/22/18721st national convention of Prohibition Party, Columbus, Ohio
Special :01/03/18721st patent list issued by US Patent Office
Special :02/14/18721st state bird refuge authorized, Lake Merritt, CA
Special :12/26/18724th largest snowfall in NYC history (18")
Special :04/10/1872A Borrelly discovers asteroid #120 Lachesis
Special :02/07/1872Alcorn A & M College opens
Special :05/22/1872Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
Special :04/10/1872Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
Special :05/17/1872Bohemian Club incorporated
Special :07/18/1872Britain introduces secret ballot voting
Special :09/14/1872Britain pays US $15« M for damages during Civil War
Special :08/23/1872C H F Peters discovers asteroid #124 Alkeste
Special :07/31/1872C H F Peters discovers asteroids #122 Gerda & #123 Brunhild
Special :01/20/1872Calif Stock Exchange Board organized
Special :02/27/1872Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U
Special :04/14/1872Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
Special :07/09/1872Doughnut cutter patented by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me
Special :11/09/1872Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston
Special :01/29/1872Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
Special :03/05/1872George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains
Special :12/07/1872HMS Challenger sets sail on 3«-year world oceanographic cruise
Special :02/20/1872Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
Special :03/22/1872Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
Special :04/03/1872J C Watson discovers asteroid #119 Althaea
Special :05/12/1872J C Watson discovers asteroid #121 Hermione
Special :11/25/1872J C Watson discovers asteroid #128 Nemesis
Special :04/12/1872Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia, Kentucky (1 dead/$1,500)
Special :09/21/1872John Henry Conyers of SC becomes 1st black student at Annapolis
Special :09/29/1872Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree
Special :02/22/1872Labor Reform Party forms at Columbus, Ohio
Special :03/26/1872Largest Calif quake (100-mile line)
Special :07/20/1872Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... radio is born
Special :11/07/1872Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
Special :05/16/1872Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
Special :11/05/1872Paul Henry discovers asteroid #126 Velleda
Special :09/11/1872Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #125 Liberatrix
Special :11/05/1872Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #127 Johanna
Special :03/15/1872R Luther discovers asteroid #118 Peitho
Special :06/05/1872Republican National Convention meets (Phila)
Special :04/20/1872SF Bar Association organized
Special :11/05/1872Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
Special :03/26/1872Thomas J Martin awarded patent for fire extinguisher
Special :02/20/1872Toothpick manufacturing machine patented in US
Special :03/--/1872US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho opens
Special :11/05/1872Ulysses S Grant elected as US president
Special :05/10/1872Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US president
Special :04/24/1872Volcano Vesuvius erupts
Special :06/18/1872Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
Special :10/19/1872World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales
Special :03/01/1872Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
Special :12/21/1872-2øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
Special :04/23/187229øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
Special :03/05/18723øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
Special :03/06/18725øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
Special :12/27/18726øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC

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