Today in History for July 1796
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Months in 1796: January February March April May June August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 4 of 4
4th - 1st Independence Day celebration is held
8th - US State Dept issues 1st American passport
10th - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
22nd - Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 11 of 11
3rd - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [NS]
6th - Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55)
15th - Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist (Bulfinch's Mythology)
16th - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, painter
18th - Feargus O'Connor, County Cork, leader of English Chartists
20th - Edward Hodges, composer
23rd - Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer
24th - Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman
24th - John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50)
26th - George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)
28th - Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician (d. 1859)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 3 of 3
16th - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
21st - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37
30th - Nicolas the Pigage, French classical architect, dies
