Today in History for October 1820
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Months in 1820: January February March April May June July August September November December
Historical Events
Events 1 - 2 of 2
9th - Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
20th - Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 9 of 9
1st - Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer
5th - David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
6th - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
8th - Stanislaw Katski, composer
11th - Alfred Washington Ellet, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
13th - John William Dawson, Canadian geologist (d. 1899)
20th - Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)
20th - George Jerrison Stannard, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
23rd - James Monroe Goggin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 3 of 3
3rd - Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74
12th - Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36
15th - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (b. 1771)
