Today in History for November 1837
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Months in 1837: January February March April May June July August September October December
Historical Events
Events 1 - 5 of 5
7th - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy shot dead (age 34) by pro-slavery mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
8th - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
15th - Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system
19th - Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens
21st - Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 9 of 9
2nd - Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. (1891)
9th - Alfred Holmes, composer
9th - Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician
13th - James T. Rapier, American politician (d. 1883)
17th - David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curacao
17th - Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor
17th - Willem Coenen, composer
23rd - Johannes van der Waals, Leiden, Netherlands, physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid & Gas States), (d. 1923)
28th - John Wesley Hyatt, inventor (celluloid)
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 1 of 1
4th - Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69
