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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... October 2007 is the tenth month of that year. ... October 2006 is the tenth month of that year and has yet to occur. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- â†’ Deaths in October 28: Richard Smalley 26: Emil Kyulev 24: JosÃ© Azcona del Hoyo 24: Rosa Parks 23: Stella Obasanjo 22: Liam Lawlor 22: Shirley Horn 20: Endon Mahmood 17: Ba Jin 10: Milton Obote 7: Charles... October 21, 2004 A University of Florida scientist, Thomas DeMarse, announces that he has grown a brain of rat neurons that can fly an airplane simulator. ... October 21, 2003 War on Terrorism: US officials state that they believe Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was killed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. ... October 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December // Events October 31, 2002 The Russian Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko has now stated that the incapacitating agent used in the storming of the Moscow theatre siege was a fentanyl derivative. ... 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: October 2 - Bankruptcy of Swissair. ... October 2000 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events October 1 - 2 - Nine Israeli-Arabs are killed by Israeli security forces after a riot/violent demonstration of solidarity with Palestinians under military rule in the West Bank and Gaza. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 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Events

1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
1520 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.
1600 - Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate, who in effect rule Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
1774 - First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1797 - In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signalled the virtual end of French maritime power and left Britain navally unchallenged until the twentieth century.
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at Ulm, reaping Napoleon over 30,000 prisoners and inflicting 10,000 casualties on the losers. Ulm was considered to be one of Napoleon's finest hours.
1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff - Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.
1867 - Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty - Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.
1879 - Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1892 - Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition were held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
1895 - The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
1902 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
1921 - President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
1941 - 7000 Serbs were shot in Kragujevac, Serbia by Nazi Germans.
1944 - The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
1945 - Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
1945 - Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón married actress Evita.
1947 - 21 die as a fire destroys an asylum in Hoff, Germany.
1959 - In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
1959 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
1965 - Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
1966 - Aberfan disaster: A coal tip falls on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
1967 - Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility (event lasts until October 23; 683 people were arrested). Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
1969 - A coup d'état in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power.
1973 - John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.
1973 - Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
1977 - The European Patent Institute is founded.
1978 - Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
1983 - The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
1986 - In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he was released in August 1991).
1987 - Former Miss America Bess Myerson is arrested on charges of bribery, conspiracy, and mail fraud, all involving an alimony-fixing scandal. She is later found not guilty.
1990 - The first Apple Day, is held in Covent Garden, London.
1994 - North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
1994 - In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
1995 - Dayton Agreement The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2001 - "United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. Event organized and headlined by Michael Jackson, also featuring pop stars Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, The Backstreet Boys, and others.
2002 - Violence in Badlapur, suburb of Mumbai created a tension in the city resulted in a lot of property damage injuring 4 people.
2003 - Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
2007 - San Diego County has its worst wildfire disaster in San Diegan history as the Harris and Witch Fires blazed across the county. Together, they have burned at least 200,000 acres of land. Only one casualty has been reported.

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The front of the Guggenheim Museum from 5th Avenue This article refers to the Guggenheim Museum in the upper east side of Manhattan (New York). ... Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 â€“ April 9, 1959) was one of the worlds most prominent and influential architects. ... For the pop band, see Presidents of the United States of America. ... Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 â€“ March 28, 1969) was an American General and politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953â€“1961). ... The presidential seal was used by Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... For other uses of von Braun, see von Braun (disambiguation). ... The United States Army is the largest and oldest branch of the armed forces of the United States. ... This article is about the American space agency. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Comet Ikeya-Seki, formally designated C/1965 S1, 1965 VIII, and 1965f, was a comet discovered independently by Kaoru Ikeya and Tsutomu Seki. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... The Aberfan disaster occurred on Friday, October 21, 1966, at 9:15am. ... Aberfan (in Welsh, the f is pronounced like the v in English) is a small village 5 miles (8 km) south of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. ... This article is about the country. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam Peopleâ€™s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... 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For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... On 10 July 1973, in Rome, John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil billionaire and renowned scrooge, John Paul Getty, was kidnapped and a ransom of $17 million was demanded over the phone for his safe return. ... For other uses, see Rome (disambiguation). ... is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... John Frederick Fred Dryer (born July 6, 1946 in Hawthorne, California), is the son of the late Charles F. Dryer and Genevieve Nell Clark and is an American actor and former football defensive end in the NFL. He is also known for co-starring in 1980s television show Hunter with... City St. ... NFL redirects here. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... The Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office or European Patent Institute (epi) is a professional association of European patent attorneys and an international non-governmental public law corporation. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... The Valentich Disappearance occurred on October 21, 1978, when 20 year old Frederick Valentich disappeared while piloting a small Cessna 182 aircraft over the Bass Strait to King Island, Australia, after reporting a strange craft flying increasingly close in proximity. ... The Cessna 182, marketed under the name Skylane, is a four-seat, high performance, single-engine, light airplane. ... Map of Australia with Bass Strait marked in light blue Bass Strait (IPA: ) is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland (Victoria in particular). ... The City of Melbournes coat of arms The central business district of Melbourne, viewed from the north Alternate meanings: Melbourne (disambiguation) Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 52,117 in the Central... 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For the patriotically-themed comic book superheroines, see Miss America (comics). ... Cover of Miss America, 1945: Bess Myersons Own Story by Susan Dworkin Bess Myerson (born July 16, 1924, Bronx, New York) in 1945 became the first Jewish woman to win the Miss America pageant. ... Bribery is a crime implying a sum or gift given alters the behaviour of the person in ways not consistent with the duties of that person. ... Look up conspiracy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Apple Day is an annual celebration, held on every day of the year, of apples and orchards. ... Covent Garden is a district in London, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest corner of the London Borough of Camden. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... North Korea has been attempting to obtain nuclear weapons since the late 1970s. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter A nuclear weapon derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fusion or fission. ... Short name Statistics Location map Map of location of Seoul. ... The Seongsu Bridgeis a bridge over the Han Riverin Seoul, South Korea. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, Dayton Accords, Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement, is the peace agreement reached at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris on December 14... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ... Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, informally known as RFK Stadium, is a sports stadium that opened in 1961. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the King of Pop, is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for the last three decades. ... This article is about the band Aerosmith. ... Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, and actress. ... The Backstreet Boys, or BSB, are a boy band and pop group formed in 1992 by manager Lou Pearlman that grew to considerable popularity in the late 1990s, but quietly slipped away from the charts by the early part of the 2000s. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... , Badlapur, also known as Kulgaon-Badlapur, is one of the fastest growing towns in Mumbai Conurbation, India. ... , Bombay redirects here. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Artists impression of Pluto (background) and Charon (foreground). ... Eris (IPA or ), officially designated 136199 Eris, is the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system. ... Michael (Mike) E. Brown (born c. ... Chadwick A. Chad Trujillo (born November 22, 1973), is the co-discoverer of Eris, which he claims to be the Tenth Planet. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... San Diego County is a county located on the Pacific Ocean in the far southwest of California, along the border with Mexico. ...

Births

1449 - George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III (d. 1478)
1527 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1578)
1581 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)
1650 - Jean Bart, French admiral (d. 1702)
1660 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist (d. 1734)
1675 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
1687 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
1712 - Sir James Steuart, British economist (d. 1780)
1725 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (d. 1801)
1757 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)
1762 - Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (d. 1818)
1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet (d. 1834)
1775 - Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (d. 1844)
1790 - Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (d. 1869)
1821 - Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881)
1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896)
1847 - Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian writer (d. 1906)
1851 - George Ulyett, English cricketer (d. 1898)
1895 - Edna Purviance, American actress (d. 1958)
1904 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (d. 1967)
1906 - Lillian Asplund, last American Titanic survivor (d. 2006)
1907 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)
1907 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (b. 1824)
1912 - Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997)
1912 - Alfredo Pián, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
1914 - Martin Gardner, American mathematician and writer
1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (d. 1993)
1921 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, British composer (d. 2006)
1922 - Liliane de Bettencourt, heir to L'Oreal
1924 - Celia Cruz, Cuban singer (d. 2003)
1924 - Joyce Randolph, American actress
1925 - Louis J. Robichaud, Canadian premier of New Brunswick (d. 2005)
1928 - Whitey Ford, American baseball player
1929 - Ursula K. Le Guin, American author
1938 - Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2001)
1940 - Geoff Boycott, English cricketer
1940 - Manfred Mann, English musician
1941 - Steve Cropper, American musician
1942 - Elvin Bishop, American musician
1942 - Judy Sheindlin, American judge ("Judge Judy")
1942 - Allan Grice, Australian racing driver
1943 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (d. 1970)
1945 - Everett McGill, American actor
1946 - Jim Hill, American sportscaster
1946 - Lux Interior, American singer (The Cramps)
1946 - Lee Loughnane, American musician
1948 - Shaye Cohen, Historian and Professor at Harvard University
1948 - Tom Everett, American actor
1949 - Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1971)
1949 - Mike Keenan, Canadian ice hockey coach
1949 - Benjamin Netanyahu, 9th Prime Minister of Israel
1950 - Ronald McNair, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1952 - Trevor Chappell, Australian cricketer
1952 - Allen Hoey, American poet and novelist
1952 - Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (d. 1990)
1953 - Keith Green, American musician (d. 1982)
1953 - Peter Mandelson, British politician
1953 - Charlotte Caffey, American musician (The Go-Go's)
1954 - Brian Tobin, Canadian premier of Newfoundland
1955 - Rich Mullins, American musician (d. 1997)
1956 - Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer
1957 - Julian Cope, English musician and writer
1957 - Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1957 - Steve Lukather, American musician
1959 - George Bell, Dominican baseball player
1959 - Rose McDowall, Scottish musician
1959 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
1962 - David Campese, Australian rugby union footballer
1964 - Jon Carin, American musician (Pink Floyd, The Who)
1965 - Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Spanish footballer
1967 - Paul Ince, English footballer
1968 - Melora Walters, American actress
1969 - Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, crown prince of Bahrain
1969 - Mo Lewis, American football player
1971 - Damien Martyn, Australian cricketer
1971 - Jade Jagger, Socialite and Jewelery Designer
1971 - Nick Oliveri, American musician
1971 - Paul Norman Telfer, Scottish footballer
1972 - Felicity Andersen, Australian actress
1972 - Matthew Friedberger, American musician (The Fiery Furnaces)
1972 - Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of international law
1973 - Lera Auerbach, Russian composer
1973 - Charlie Lowell, American Musician
1975 - Toby Hall, American baseball player
1975 - Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer
1976 - Jeremy Miller, American TV actor
1976 - Lavinia Miloşovici, Romanian gymnast
1976 - Mélanie Turgeon, French Canadian alpine skier
1978 - Will Estes, American actor
1978 - Joey Harrington, American football player
1979 - Khalil Greene, American baseball player
1979 - Gabe Gross, American baseball player
1980 - Brian Pittman, American musician (Relient K)
1981 - Nemanja Vidić, Serbian footballer
1982 - James White, American basketball player
1982 - Matt Dallas, American Actor
1983 - Ninette Tayeb, Israeli singer
1984 - Kieran Richardson, English footballer
1984 - Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, French Canadian short track speed skater
1986 - Alex Kew, British actor
1986 - Christopher Uckermann, Mexican actor and singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1990 - Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player

Events January 6 - Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor. ... George (Plantagenet), Duke of Clarence (October 21, 1449 - February 18, 1478) was the third son of Richard, Duke of York and Cecily Neville, and the brother of King Edward IV of England. ... Edward IV (April 28, 1442 â€“ April 9, 1483) was King of England from March 4, 1461 to April 9, 1483, with a break of a few months in the period 1470â€“1471. ... Richard III (2 October 1452 â€“ 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death. ... Events February 18 - George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London. ... January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat in ZÃ¼rich by the ZÃ¼rich Reformed state church. ... Louis I, Cardinal of Guise (October 21, 1527, Joinville â€“ March 29, 1578, Paris) was the fourth son of Claude, Duke of Guise and Antoinette de Bourbon, and the younger brother of Charles of Guise, Cardinal of Lorraine. ... Events January 31 - Battle of Gemblours - Spanish forces under Don John of Austria and Alexander Farnese defeat the Dutch. ... Events January 16 - English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism April 4 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. July 26 - The Northern Netherlands proclaim their independence from Spain in the Oath of Abjuration. ... Domenico Zampieri (or Domenichino) (October 21, 1581 - April 15, 1641), was a prominent high Baroque painter of the Bolognese or Carracci School of Painters. ... Events The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles Is absolutist tendencies. ... Year 1650 (MDCL) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Jean Bart (October 21, 1651 - April 27, 1702) was a French naval commander of the 17th century. ... Events March 8 - William III died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland. ... // Events January 1 - Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins advance towards London in support of English Restoration. ... Georg Ernst Stahl (October 21, 1660 - May 24, 1734), was a German chemist and physician. ... Events January 8 - Premiere of George Frideric Handels opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. ... Year 1675 (MDCLXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Emperor Higashiyama (東山天皇) (October 21, 1675 - January 16, 1710) was the 113th imperial ruler of Japan. ... // Events April 10 - The worlds first copyright legislation became effective, Britains Statute of Anne Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) Births January 3 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. ... Events March 19 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. ... Nicolaus I Bernoulli (21 October 1687, Basel, Switzerland – 29 November 1759, Basel) was a Swiss mathematician. ... 1759 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... // Events Treaty of Aargau signed between Catholic and Protestants. ... Sir James Denham Steuart (21 October 1712 â€“ 26 November 1780), 4th Baronet Denham, was a British economist. ... 1780 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Events February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. ... Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy (also written Lascy) (en: Count Franz Moritz von Lacy), (October 21, 1725 â€“ November 24, 1801), Austrian field marshal, was born at St Petersburg. ... The Union Jack, flag of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... 1757 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Pierre FranÃ§ois Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione Pierre FranÃ§ois Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione (October 21, 1757 â€“ June 12, 1816) was a French General, marshal of France and protagonist of both the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. ... Baton of a modern Marshal of France The Marshal of France (French: MarÃ©chal de France) is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a military rank. ... Year 1816 (MDCCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Herman Willem Daendels (1762-1818) Herman Willem Daendels (Hattem, October 21, 1762 â€“ Ghana, May 2, 1818) was a Dutch politician who served as the 36th Governor General of the Dutch East Indies between 1808 - 1811. ... Year 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1772 (MDCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 â€“ July 25, 1834) (pronounced ) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. ... Year 1834 (MDCCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1775 (MDCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Giuseppe Baini (October 21, 1775 – May 21, 1844) was an Italian priest, music critic and composer of church music. ... Jan. ... Year 1790 (MDCCXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Portrait of Alphonse de Lamartine Lamartine in front of the HÃ´tel de Ville de Paris, on the 25 February 1848, by Philippoteaux Alphonse Marie Louise Prat de Lamartine (Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de Lamartine) (October 21, 1790 - February 28, 1869) was a French writer, poet and politician, born... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Year 1821 (MDCCCXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Heinrich Eduard Heine (March 15, 1821â€“October 21, 1881) was a German mathematician. ... Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1833 (MDCCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Swedenâ€”December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) was a Swedish chemi

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