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1793 - Birth of John Clare Northamptonshire peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar).

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1793 - French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat murdered by Charlotte Corday.

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1821 - Birth of Nathan Bedford Forrest Tennessee, brilliant cavalry leader, Lieutenant General.

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1832 - Henry Rowe Schoolcraft discovers the source of the Mississippi River.

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1836 - US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels.

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1854 - US forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua.

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1863 - Birth of Emma Mary Wooley educator (Mary Anna Wells).

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1863 - Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in New York City; about 1,000 die.

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1865 - Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man".

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1865 - PT Barnum's museum burns down.

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