Today in History for January 1840
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 10 of 10
1st - 1st recorded bowling match in US, Knickerbocker Alleys, NYC
3rd - 1st deep sea sounding
5th - Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date
10th - Penny Post mail system is starts
13th - The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
18th - Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears
19th - Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)
20th - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica
20th - Dutch King Willem II crowned
22nd - British colonists reach New Zealand.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 8 of 8
3rd - Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii
5th - John Doby Kennedy, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
10th - Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)
18th - Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer
18th - Ernst Rudorff, composer
21st - Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician
22nd - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
23rd - Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 2 of 2
6th - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)
22nd - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
