Page 3: Historical Events In January - 02

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

1861  SC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor on January - 02.   

1861  SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor on January - 02.   

1861  On this day in history 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  On January - 02 battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends   

1863  On this day in history lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)   

1863  On January - 02 roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 35   

1870  On January - 02 construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins   

1870  On January - 02 ernst Barlach, writer   

1871  King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25 on January - 02.   

1872  On this day in history canada and the US first share telegraphed weather reports.   

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 January - 02.   

1879  On January - 02 first Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG   

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

1879  On this day in history johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces)   

1880  On this day in history louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer   

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 this day in history.   

1882  On this day in history because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust   

1884  Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame) on this day in history.   

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

1885  On January - 02 gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum   

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

1886  Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet (In New-York) on January - 02.   

1889  Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine) on January - 02.   

1890  On January - 02 alice Sanger becomes first female White House staffer   

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 January - 02.   

1892  On this day in history lura Anson, Nebraska, entertainer   

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

1893  On January - 02 the first US commemoratives &1st US stamp to picture a woman issued   

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1642  On January - 02 birth of mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey)   

1647  Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676) was born on this day in history.   

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

1713  Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) was born on January - 02.   

1719  Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797) was born on this day in history.   

1727  James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) was born on this day in history.   

1728  On January - 02 birth of louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium   

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

0017  On this day in history publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies   

1512  Death of Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460) on this day in history.   

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

1557  Death of Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494) on this day in history.   

1685  On January - 02 death of harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)   

1694  Death of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651) on this day in history.   

1726  Domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37 on January - 02.   

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