Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). 1841 - Events. January 26 - The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong. Later during the year, the first census of the island recorded a population of about 7,500. February 18 - The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11. March 4 - Martin Va ...

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1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) 1920 - Events. January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full. January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor wh ...

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1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1915 - Events. January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress. January 12 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote. January 13 – An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano, Italy - 32.610 dead January 19 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in adve ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1899 - Events. January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba. January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City. January 6 - Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy of India. January 17 - United States takes possession of Wake Island. January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1849 - Events. January 1 France issues Ceres, France's first postage stamp. In Milan, anti-Austrian activists organize a smoking boycott in protest of the Austrian monopoly on tobacco. Protests erupts into brief riots. January 12 - Uprising against Austrian troops in Palermo, Sicily< ...

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1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1909 - Events. January 16 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. January 28 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War. February 12 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. February 23 - The Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the ...

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1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. 1910 - Events. January - In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and George I of Greece to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution. January 15 - In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of the (1909) budget results in ...

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1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1905 - Events. January 2 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian Army surrenders at Port Arthur, China; an event which shocked the world. January 22 - Massacre of Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, one of the triggers of the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905. January 26 - The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier ...

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April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). There are 269 days remaining. April 6 - Events. 648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks. 402 - Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia 1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. 1327 - The poet Petrarch first saw his idealized love Laura in the church of Saint Claire ...

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Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (February 4, 1778 - September 9, 1841) was a Swiss botanist. Candolle was born in Geneva. He was descended from one of the ancient families of Provence, whence his ancestors had been expatriated for their religion in the middle of the 16th century. Though a weakly boy he showed great aptitude for study, and distinguished himself at school by his rapid attainments in classical and general literature, and specially by a faculty for writing elegant verse. He began his scientific studies at the college o ...

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August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. There are 94 days in North Hemisphere summer, South Hemisphere winter. The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through the summer on August 7. August 7 - Events. 1679 - The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Gre ...

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April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). There are 271 days remaining. April 4 - Events. 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. 1721 - Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I. 1812 - U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom. 1814 - Napo ...

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13 April is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). There are 262 days remaining. It is also the Ides of April. April 13 - Events. 1055 - Victor II is consecrated pope 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor 1180 - Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople 1598 - Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the HuguenotsIncluding:

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August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. August 25 - Events. 1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed. 1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal. 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded. 1758 - Seven Years ...

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Anton Dreher, the older, born in Schwechat near Vienna (Austria) 7 June 1810 was an Austrian brewer who invented modern Lager beer. He learned the brewing with Brewmaster Meichl in the family brewery. Starting in 1836, he took over the brewery and developed the bottom-fermented beer — Schwechater Lagerbier — in 1840/1841. This type of beer grew to tremendous popularity first in Vienna and later worldwide. His Son Anton Dreher the Younger later developed the brewery further and started fist to export Lager beer

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April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). There are 259 days remaining. April 16 - Events. 1178 BC - A solar eclipse may mark the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War. 1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy. 1521 - Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the rest of the ...

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April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 247 days remaining. April 28 - Events. 1253 - Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism. 1788 - Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. 1789 - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Captain William ...

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Athens or Athens-Clarke County is a city located in Clarke County, Georgia, U.S., in the northeastern part of the state, just off of Georgia 316. As of the 2000 census, the consolidated city-county (including all unincorporated areas in Clarke County except Winterville) had a total population of 100,266, although this does not include all of the college students with temporary residences. It is home to the University of Georgia, a major educational institution in the South and a football powerhouse in the Southeastern Conferenc ...

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1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. 1932 - Events. 1932 - January-February. January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate January 14 - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G (Ravel) debuts with pia ...

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The Most Noble Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, widely considered one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. Commissioned an Ensign in the British Army, he would rise to prominence in the Napoleonic Wars, eventually reaching the rank of Field Marshal. Wellington commanded the Allied forces during the Peninsular War, pushing the French Army out of Portugal and Spain and reaching southern Fran ...

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