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What Happened in April 1744

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Famous Birthdays

  • Apr 18 Pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist and patriot (editor of f De Post van den Neder-Rhijn), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1828)
  • Apr 22 James Sullivan, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (1807-08), born in Berwick, Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1808)
Born in 1744

Famous Deaths

Anders Celsius (1701-1744)

Apr 25 Swedish astronomer (proposed the Celsius temperature scale), dies at 42

Anders Celsius

Famous People by Cause of Death

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