Today in History for January 1838
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Historical Events
Events 1 - 4 of 4
1st - 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
8th - 1st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes (NJ)
8th - Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out
26th - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 5 of 5
1st - William Hugh Young, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
4th - Charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb] (famous short person)
5th - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
6th - Max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer
16th - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 6 of 6
13th - Ferdinand Ries, German composer dies at 53
16th - Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [OS]
20th - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer, dies at 64
23rd - Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director, dies at 67
28th - Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS]
30th - Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail
