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1727, the British physicist, mathematician and astronomer Isaac Newton dies. His law of gravitation explained the motion of the planets and the Moon. In 1836, the Slovenian caver Luka Čeč dies.
In 1803, mechanical engineer and inventor John Ericsson is born. He is remembered best for designing the steam locomotive Novelty and the ironclad ship USS Monitor.
In 1856, in Endenich near Bonn the German composer, representative of Romanticism, Robert Schumann dies. In 1871, the Russian healer Grigory Rasputin Jefimovič is born.
In 1655, the French dramatist Cyrano de Bergerac dies. In fictional works about his life he is featured with an overly large nose, which people would travel from miles around to see.
In 1793, by decree of the revolutionary government the biggest museum in the world is opened in the Louvre. On view in the Louvre are works from the early days of art until this present day.
In 1788, New York ratified the Constitution of the United States and became the 11th federal state. In 1803, in London the Surrey Iron Railway opens, the first public railway in the world.
In 1857, the railway connection between Vienna and Trieste is opened. The railway linked the territory inhabited by Slovenes and accelerated the development of industry and mining.
In 1567, the Scottish queen Mary Stuart is deposed. In 1802, the French writer Alexandre Dumas is born. He is one of the most widely read French authors.
in 1885, U. S. President Ulysses Simpson Grant, who is known for some of the key victories for the North in the American Civil War, dies.
In 365 BC, Macedonian Alexander the Great is born. In the thirteen years of the reign he united Greeks and defeated the Persians.
In 1923, in Trbovlje a general mining strike begins. 9,400 miners demanded an increase in wages. In 1937, the Italian electrical engineer and inventor Guglielmo Marconi dies.
In 1899, the American writer Ernest Hemingway is born. He was a major representative of the so-called lost generation between the wars. In 1961 he committed suicide.
In 1374, the Italian Renaissance poet and the first Italian humanist, Francesco Petrarca dies. With his style he strongly influenced later poets, including Slovenia's France Prešeren.
In 1811 the English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray is born. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair. In 1817, the English novelist Jane Austen dies.
In 1674, the English Christian hymnwriter Isaac Watts is born. In 1889, the American writer Erle Stanley Gardner, who is famous primarily for novels about the detective Perry Mason, is born.
In 1880, Emily Howard Stowe is the first woman in Canada to receive a license to practice medicine. In 1911, the famous dancer Ginger Rogers is born.
In 1606, the Dutch painter and graphic artist Rembrandt, the most prominent representative of the Baroque, is born. In 1961, the American actor Forest Whitaker is born.
In 1223, Louis VIII. is crowned King of France. In 1789, in an attack by the population of Paris on the notorious prison and fortress Bastille the French bourgeois revolution begins.
In 100 BC the Roman general Gaius Julius Caesar is born. In 1841, the Austrian architect, urbanist and educator Otto Wagner is born.
In 1536, in Basel the Dutch humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam dies. In 1863, in Nice the French bacteriologist Albert Calmette is born.
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