What Happened In February 1869 In History

Historical Events for February, 1869

• 5th » The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1869

• 11th » Helene Kröller-Müller, German-Dutch art collector and philanthropist, founded the Kröller-Müller Museum (d. 1939)
• 11th » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and author (d. 1945)
• 12th » Kien Phuc, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1884)
• 14th » Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 15th » Cormic Cosgrove, American soccer player (d. 1930)
• 19th » Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet (d. 1923)
• 25th » Phoebus Levene, Russian-American biochemist (d. 1940)
• 27th » Alice Hamilton, American physician and academic (d. 1970)

Famous Deaths for February 1869

• 15th » Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)
• 28th » Alphonse de Lamartine, French author and poet (b. 1790)

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