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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1847 - Events. 1847 - January. January 4 - Samuel Colt sells his first hoe to the United States government. January 13 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California. January 16 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.Including:

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1847 - January. January 4 - Samuel Colt sells his first hoe to the United States government. January 13 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California. January 16 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. January 30 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. 1847 - February. February 22 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops under Genera ...

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1800 - Ongoing events. French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign ...

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Annie Wood Besant (Clapham, London October 1, 1847 – India September 20, 1933) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator. Besant was divorced from her clergyman husband Frank Besant, younger brother of Walter Besant, and she had to leave both her children behind. She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with freedom of thought, women's rights, secularism (she was a leading member of the National Secular Society alongside Charles Bradlaugh), birth control, Fabian socialism and wo ...

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Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23, 1857) was a French mathematician. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of calculus in a rigorous manner and was thus an early pioneer of analysis. He also gave several important theorems in complex analysis and initiated the study of permutation groups. A profound mathematician, Cauchy exercised by his perspicuous and rigorous methods a great influence over his contemporaries and successors. His writings cov ...

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1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. 1956 - Events. January 1 - End of Anglo-Egyptian Codominium in Sudan. January 16 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine. January 26 - 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. January 26 - The United Kingdom bans heroin. January 25-January 26 - Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilian ...

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The Canton of Zürich (German: Kanton Zürich) has a population of about 1.2 million. The canton is located in the northeast of Switzerland and the city of Zürich is its capital. The official language is German, but people speak the local Swiss German dialect called Züritüütsch (in German). In English the name of the canton is often written without umlauts: Canton of Zurich. Canton of Zürich - Geography. The canton of Zürich is situated north of the Alps. Its neighbo ...

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1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1934 - Events. January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison. January 1 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring." January 7 - First Flash Gordon comic strip is published. January 10 - Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe January 24 - Einstein visits White House January 26 - The Apollo The ...

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1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). It also had the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasn't had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. See 1696. 1903 - Events. January 1 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India January 6 - Mileva Maric married Albert Einstein. February 11 - The Oxnard Strike of 1903 represents the first time in U.S. h ...

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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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1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1922 - Events. January 7 - Dáil Éireann, the extra-legal parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes. January 8 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded. January 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann. January 11 - First successful insulin treatment of diabetes. January 12 - Briti ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1882 - Events. January 2 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust. February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut February 3 - P. T. Barnum purchases the elephant Jumbo February 7 - In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing champi ...

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1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. 1931 - Events. January 4 - Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa January 6 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. January 22 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia January 25 - Mohandas Gandhi released again January 27 - Pierre Laval forms a government in France February 3 - Napier earthquake - mu ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1800 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1800 - Events. March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope as Pius VII. March 21 - Pius VII is ordained. April 24 - U.S. Library of Congress founded. May 5 - Great Britain passes the Act of Union to join Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom to take effect on 1 January ...

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1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1923 - Events. January 1 - Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments 1923 - February. February 16 - Howard Carter unseals the ...

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1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). 1927 - Events. January 1 - Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack secular-minded government January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London January 9 - Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon January 14 - Paul Doumer elected president of France January 19 - Britain sends troops to China Including:

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44°25′N 26°06′E Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti /bu.ku'reʃtʲ/) is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is located in the southeast of the country, at 44°25′N 26°06′E, and lies on the banks of the Dâmboviţa River. The city was first mentioned in 1459 and became the capital of Romania in 1862. Since then, it has gone through a variety of changes and has become the centre of the Romanian mass media, cul ...

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Charles Allen, LL.D. (1827—1913) was an American jurist, born at Greenfield, Mass.. He graduated from Harvard in 1847, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1850. He practiced law at Greenfield for twelve years, then advanced to State offices, serving as the Attorney-General of Massachusetts from 1867 to 1872. during his sixteen years of service (1882—1898) on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State, h

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Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted felon as a punishment for a crime (often called a capital offence or a capital crime). Historically the judicial execution of criminals and political opponents was a phenomenon of nearly all societies and it was often used as a means to suppress political enemies. It was also seen as the ultimate deterrent to crime. The majority of democratic countries in Europe and Latin America have abolished capital punishment over the la ...

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The Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman (February 21, 1801 – August 11, 1890) was an English convert to Catholicism, later made a cardinal. In early life he was a major figure in the Oxford Movement to bring the Church of England back to its Catholic roots. Eventually his studies in history convinced him to become a Catholic. Both before and after his conversion he wrote a number of influential books, including Via Media, Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, and the Grammar ...

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