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1772 - Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti" premieres in Brunswick.

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1779 - Birth of Oliver Shaw composer.

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1781 - Birth of Karl F Schinkel German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel).

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1781 - Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus).

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1790 - John Martin, first American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia.

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1797 - Cherubini's opera "Medée" premieres in Paris France.

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1798 - Birth of Abigail Powers Fillmore first lady-Millard Fillmore (1850-53).

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1809 - In Sweden, army officers arrest King Gustav IV Adolf in his castle. The king is forced to abdicate, deposed together with his heirs, and expelled from the country.

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1817 - Matej Sojka composer, dies at age 77.

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1818 - Birth of Albion Parris Howe Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1897.

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