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1857 - Birth of Clara Zetkin German women's rights advocate.

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1859 - Captain NC Brooks discovers Midway Islands.

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1861 - Engagement at Carthage, Missouri.

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1865 - William P. Wood becomes first chief of the US Secret Service.

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1865 - William Booth founded Salvation Army in London.

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1867 - Birth of Dr Andrew Ellicott Douglass Dendrochronologer (study of tree rings).

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1877 - Birth of Wanda Landowska Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist.

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1879 - Birth of Dwight Filley Davis donated tennis' Davis Cup.

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1879 - Birth of Wanda A Landowska Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist (Musique Ancienne).

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1886 - Birth of Willem Drees Prime Minister of Netherland (1948-58).

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