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Show THIS DATE IN HIHrOKV MAV 91. lSOi-Birth of Dante, who died" 1821. The great- est of Italian poeta; his chief work. "Wvina Commedia," a vision of the invisible world. 1WM Death of John Calvin (or Chauvin); born at Noyon, in Picardy, July 10, 1609. 1703-Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg as a new capital. 18111-Forts Erie and Georgo abandoned by tht British. 1840-Death of I'aganini, violinist; born 1784. " 1848 Insurrection at Vienna. The emperor fleei to Imupruck and Archduke John appointed vicar general. 18B7 Mutinies In the Bengal army. East India; the British march on Delhi. The natives objected ob-jected to the use of the greased cartridges in their Enfield rifiei. 1802 -Gen. McClcllan takes Hanover Court House, Vs. 188S-Beginning of siege of Port Hudson, La. Union loss, 3,000; Confederate loss, 7,90. 1868 Resignation of Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war; succeeded by Oen. Schoflcld. 1871 Sixteen priests and thirty-eight gendarmes shot by the Communist in Paris; women who were fighting and throwing petroleum into burning bouses shot by the troops. 187H Roman Catholic church caught fire in Holy oke, Mass. During the panlo eighty wers burned or trampled to death. |