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Show THIS I)ATB IN IIISTOIIY-AUGUST 2,1, lClli Charles I began war against the Puritans or Roundheads. 1770 Death of Thomas Chat- terton, phenomenal poet, aged 18. 1770 Death of David Hume, historian; his-torian; born 1711. 1798 John Ncal, famous Amerl- 'I can poet of his time, born in 1796-Blrth df James Lick, phi- Tsor- "a""-laothroptit, "a""-laothroptit, founder of Lick's observatory, California. 1819 Allan Plnkerton, famous detective, bom In Glasgow, Scotland; died In Chicago 1884. 1819 Death of James Watt, Inventor of steam engine; en-gine; born 1786. 1823 Death of Sir William Herschel, astronomer; born 1788. 18S9 Birth in Albany, N. Y., of Francis Bret Harte, author. 1850-Born In Shirley, Me., Edgar Wilson Nye, humorist. 1808-Heavy skirmlshms; on the Rappahannock between the Confederates and (Jen. Pope's forces. 1864 Battle at Ream's Station, Va.; Union loss 2,4412, Confederate 1,500. 1867 Death of Michael Faraday, philosopher an scientist, aged 71. 1870 The Prussians occupied the arrondissement of Vawy; Chalons also occupied. -188B Death of ex-Governor Reuben E. Fenton, of New York, aged 66. 1880 One hundred and fifty thousand dock labor era struck to London. |