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This year in history
In the year 1803

	January 23th	Irish entrepreneur, Arthur Guinness, died at the age of 78. He was a brewer and the founder of Guinness Breweries.
	March 1st	Ohio was admitted as the 17th US state.
	May 25th	American author, Ralph Waldo Emerson, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the founder of the Transcendentalism movement in literature.
	October 2nd	American revolutionary leader, Samuel Adams, died at the age of 81. He was one of the chief architects of the American revolution.
	October 20th	The purchase of Louisiana was ratified by the United States Senate. It was purchased from France for 15 million USD. The territory amounted to far more than what is today the state of Louisiana, and at that time was land equalling almost a third of what is today the United States of America.
	December 11th	French composer, Hector Berlioz, was born in La Cote-Saint-Andre, France. he was a French Romantic composer best known for the Symphonie fantastique.

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