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1832 - Birth of Andrew Dickson White educator/first President of Cornell.

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1837 - Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy murdered by mob at Alton, Illinois.

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1856 - Birth of Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin Vilna, tied for chess first place (1878).

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1865 - London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded.

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1867 - Birth of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie discovered radium (Nobel Prize 1903, 1911).

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1872 - Mary Celeste sails from New York to Genoa; found abandoned four weeks later.

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1874 - First cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast.

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1875 - Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa.

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1876 - Birth of Culbert Olson Fillmore Utah, (Governor-Democrat-California).

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1876 - Meharry Medical College established at Central Tennessee College.

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