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Battle of Dabney’s Mill (Hatcher’s Run)
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Roosevelt announces court-packing plan
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Roger Williams arrives in America
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Noriega indicted on U.S. drug charges
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Mexican constitution proclaimed
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Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan French playwrightpoet
Esteban Manuel de Villegas Spanish poet (d. 1669)
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Svign French author (d. 1696)
Gilbert Tennent Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764)
Joseph Umstatt Austrian composer born in Vienna (d. 1762)
James Otis American lawyer and patriot born in Barnstable Massachusetts (d. 1783)
John Jeffries colonial physician and meteorologist
Christian Gottlob Neefe German composer conductor and tutor of Beethoven born in Shimnitz Saxony (d. 1798)
Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma Frisian regentpatriot
Alexandre Brongniart mineralogistgeologist (Tertiary) born in Paris France
Margaretha J de Neufville author (Small Pligten)
Nancy Hanks Lincoln mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
Karoly Kisfaludy Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon)
Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871)
John Lindley English botanist (Elements of Botany)
John Watkinson founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag)
Dwight Lyman Moody American evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
Hiram Stevens Maxim inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)
John Boyd Dunlop Scotland developer (pneumatic rubber tire)
Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley] US female outlaw (wild west)
Joris-Karl Huysmans French writer (Against the Grain)
Ignacio Carrera Pinto Chilean war hero (d. 1882)
Otto Brahm German criticfounder (Neue Deutsche Rundschau)
Felipe Villanueva y Gutierrez Mexican composer
Carl Teike German military composer born in Stettin-Altdamm Pomerania (d. 1922)
Harvey Worthington Loomis American composer (Lyrics of the Red Man) born in Brooklyn New York (d. 1930)
Arthur Keith Persley Aberdeenshire Scottish Anthropologist (human evolution)
Casper Andries Lingbeek Dutch politician and preacher
Lodewijk Mortelmans Belgian composer born in Antwerp Belgium (d. 1952)
Andr Citron French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
Edward Rigby British actor (Star Look Down Young & Innocent) born in Ashford Kent England (d. 1951)
Frederick Leonard Lonsdale British playwright (Balkan Princess)
Elias Henry Patsy Hendren cricketer (prolific England bat of 20s)
Feb 05 1488 Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
Feb 05 1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna
Feb 05 1572 Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth drive nuns out