Today in History for January 1837
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Months in 1837: February March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Events 1 - 2 of 2
22nd - Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
26th - Michigan admitted as 26th US state
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 9 of 9
2nd - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)
4th - Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)
5th - A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]
12th - Adolf Jensen, composer
12th - Carlos Troyer, composer
16th - James Phillip Simms, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
19th - William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)
20th - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
23rd - Amanda Berry Smith, American former slave, singer and evangelist
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 4 of 4
11th - John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54
20th - John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84
23rd - John Field, composer, dies at 54
29th - Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel
