Today in History for March 1831
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Historical Events
Events 1 - 8 of 8
2nd - John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission
6th - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point milt academy
6th - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
10th - The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
19th - 1st US bank robbery (City Bank, NY/$245,000)
29th - Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
31st - Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
31st - Quebec & Montreal incorporated
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 13 of 13
1st - Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
3rd - George M Pullman, inventor (railway sleeping car)
6th - Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission)
6th - Philip Henry Sheridan, Albany NY, Major General (Union Army)
7th - John Bratton, [Old Reliable], US physician/Confederate Brig Gen
12th - Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
14th - Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer
15th - Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
15th - Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (d. 1881)
20th - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)
23rd - Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
29th - Amelia Barr, writer
31st - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 4 of 4
4th - Georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82
9th - Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79
12th - Johann Franz Volkert, composer, dies at 64
26th - Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71
