Today in History for February 1820
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 4 of 4
6th - 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)
6th - US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))
6th - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
23rd - Cato Street conspiracy uncovered
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 11 of 11
1st - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)
2nd - Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Phantasterne)
3rd - Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
8th - William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
13th - Bela Albrecht Pal Keler, composer
15th - Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette
17th - Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons)
17th - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Catholic cardinal (d. 1898)
20th - Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
28th - John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)
29th - Adolf Schimon, composer
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 7 of 7
7th - Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57
12th - Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71
14th - Charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42
15th - Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63
15th - William Ellery, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 92
16th - Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (b. 1758).
29th - Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic (b. 1743)
