Today in History for August 1820
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 4 of 4
1st - London's Regent's Canal opens.
7th - 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
14th - 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC
24th - Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 11 of 11
3rd - Luther Orlando Emerson, composer
3rd - William Miller, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1909
8th - Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate)
12th - Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation
13th - George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer
13th - Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet (Dietsche Warande)
16th - Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician (d. 1892)
20th - Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer
24th - Jacopo Tomadini, composer
26th - James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)
30th - George Frederick Root, composer
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 4 of 4
6th - Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59
6th - M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies
11th - Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56
28th - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
