Today in History for February 1824

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 3 of 3

4th - J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public
10th - Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
16th - Athenaeum founded

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 18 of 18

3rd - George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
3rd - Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brig Gen (Confederacy), died in 1868
3rd - Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894)
7th - William Higgins, discoverer (nature of spiral nebulae)
8th - Barnard Elliot Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
10th - Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor (Plimsoll line for ships)
12th - Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati, Indian hindu leader
14th - Winfield Scott Hancock, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
16th - Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
17th - William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1903
19th - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator [NS=Mar 2]
22nd - Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
23rd - Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar)
23rd - Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
24th - John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
26th - Carlos Calvo, Argentine diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause)
28th - Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist
28th - John Creed Moore, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 5 of 5

1st - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer, dies at 64
8th - Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at 71
9th - Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49
21st - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (b. 1781)
22nd - John Davy, composer, dies at 60