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First modern Mummers’ Parade
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Haitian independence proclaimed
Operation Sam Houston begins
1st Marine Division advance elements arrive
Alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia] SpanishItalian pope (1492-1503)
Lorenzo de Medici (The Magnificent) Florentine statesman (d. 1492)
Huldrych Zwingli Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)
Margaret Leijonhufvud Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551)
Franciscus Balduinus [Francois Baudouin] lawyer
Istvn Bocskay Prince of Transylvania (d. 1606)
Friedrich Spanheim Dutch theologian (d. 1649)
John Wilkins English Bishop of Chester (d. 1672)
Bartolom Esteban Murillo Spanish Baroque artist (The Vision of St. Anthony ) born in Seville Spain (d. 1682) [baptizism date]
Isaac Sweers Dutch AdmiralgeneralCivil rights activist
Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres French poetplaywright
Johann Krieger German composer and organist born in Nuremberg (d. 1735)
Arnold Drakenborch Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
Franz Freiherr von der Trenck Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
Kristijonas Donelaitis Lutheran pastor Lithuanian poet (The Seas)
Edmund Burke British author (Philosophy & Inquiry) [NSJan 12]
Frederick Muhlenberg American statesman (d. 1801)
John Kinker Dutch linguistphilosopherpoet (Minderjarige Zangster)
Maria Edgeworth Anglo-Irish novelist (d. 1849)
Andr Marie Constant Dumril French zoologist (d. 1860)
John Pieter Heije Dutch physicianwriterpoet (Silver Fleet)
Charles Renouvier French philosopher (neocriticism)
Arthur Hugh Clough poet friend of Matthew Arnold
George Foster Shepley American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Saco Maine (d. 1878)
Sndor Petfi Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849)
William Lewis Old Tige Cabell Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Robert Lawson New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
Ludovic Halvy French playwright (d. 1908)
William Hugh Young Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1901)
Nikola Pasic Serbian nationalistpremier (1891..1926)
Eugne-Anatole Demaray French chemist (d. 1904)
James Frazer Britain anthropologistauthor (The Golden Bough)
Aleko Konstantinov Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back)
Jan 01 1259 Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris
Jan 01 1430 Jews of Sicily are no longer required to attend conversionist services
Jan 01 1438 Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes King of Hungary