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1725 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of his chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, which features trumpet fanfares at the start and end.; 1801 – Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres, naming it after the Roman goddess of agriculture and of motherly love.
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". 1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women. 1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. 1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1915 – World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.; 1917 – Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.; 1924 – Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
1861 – Francis Henry Buzzacott, American hunter, explorer and army scout famous for writing Buzzacott's Masterpiece (d. 1947) [71] 1861 – Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian educator, lawyer, and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1946) 1865 – Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1950)
1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks. [1]1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade. [2]1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the effective ruler of England.
1847 – Mir Mosharraf Hossain, famous novelist of Bengali literature (d. 1912) 1848 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d. 1922) 1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (d. 1894) 1853 – John Drew Jr., American actor (d. 1927) 1854 – George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer and educator (d. 1931)
1751 – The Theresian Military Academy is founded in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. [5]1780 – Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York.
571 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates the first of his three triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans. [1]1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies.