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1792 - 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street.

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1794 - Birth of Anna Brownell Jameson Dublin, writer.

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1794 - Hard frost in southern New England.

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1796 - Birth of Martinus J Niewindt bishop of Curaçao (christen slaves).

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1796 - Jacob Wilhelm Lustig composer, dies at age 89.

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1800 - Birth of Carl Friedrich Zollner composer.

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1803 - Birth of Robert Smith Surtees novelist.

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1803 - John Hawkins and Richard French patent the Reaping Machine.

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1804 - Birth of Ottho G Heldring Dutch vicar/reformer (Heldring Institutions).

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1804 - Lewis and Clark begin exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.

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