Page 3: Historical Events In January - 02

1861  On January - 02 colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia   

1861  On this day in history sC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor   

1861  SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor on this day in history.   

1861  On January - 02 helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12)   

1861  Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65 on January - 02.   

1863  Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends on this day in history.   

1863  Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17) on this day in history.   

1863  Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 35 on January - 02.   

1870  On January - 02 construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins   

1870  On this day in history ernst Barlach, writer   

1871  On January - 02 king Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25   

1872  Canada and the US first share telegraphed weather reports on January - 02.   

1873  Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics) on January - 02.   

1877  Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906) on January - 02.   

1879  British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die on this day in history.   

1879  On this day in history first Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG   

1879  1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG on January - 02.   

1879  Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces) on January - 02.   

1880  Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer on January - 02.   

1881  Frederick Varley painter, born at Sheffield England; he was a founding member of Canada's "Group of Seven" artists on this day in history.   

1881  Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres on January - 02.   

1882  Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust on January - 02.   

1884  On January - 02 jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)   

1885  General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum on January - 02.   

1885  Gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum on January - 02.   

1885  Johannes Ringers, Dutch water engineer (dikes) on January - 02.   

1886  On January - 02 moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet (In New-York)   

1889  On January - 02 tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine)   

1890  Alice Sanger becomes first female White House staffer on this day in history.   

1890  Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny on January - 02.   

1890  Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer on this day in history.   

1892  On January - 02 lura Anson, Nebraska, entertainer   

1892  On January - 02 george B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90   

1893  The first US commemoratives &1st US stamp to picture a woman issued on January - 02.   

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1642  On this day in history birth of mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey)   

1647  On January - 02 birth of nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)   

1699  Osman III, sultan (Turkey) was born on this day in history.   

1713  On January - 02 birth of marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)   

1719  On this day in history birth of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)   

1727  On this day in history birth of james Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec)   

1728  On this day in history birth of louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium   

1732  Franz Xaver Brixi, composer was born on January - 02.   

0017  Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies on January - 02.   

1512  On January - 02 death of svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)   

1514  Death of William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460) on January - 02.   

1557  Death of Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494) on January - 02.   

1685  Death of Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603) on January - 02.   

1694  Death of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651) on January - 02.   

1726  On January - 02 domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37   

1740  Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.