Today in History for August 1900
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 15 of 15
3rd - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
7th - Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
8th - 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Mass, & won by US 2 days later
10th - 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0)
14th - 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht)
14th - 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion
19th - Start of the one & only olympic cricket match, in Paris
20th - Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
20th - Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
22nd - Gabriel Faures opera "Prométhée," premieres in Beziers
23rd - National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
27th - Battle at Bergendal: Gen Buller beats Boer general Botha
30th - Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
31st - British troops over run Johannesburg
31st - Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 41 of 41
1st - Otto Nothling, cricketer (Test for Australia 1928, 52 runs aver 26)
2nd - Helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause)
2nd - Marinus Adam, Dutch conductor/composer
3rd - Arnoldus J N M Struycken, Dutch lawyer
3rd - Ernie Pyle, England, correspondent during WW II
3rd - John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution
4th - Arturo Umberto Illia, pres of Argentina (1963-66)
4th - Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch)
4th - Elizabeth, Queen Mother Of England, King George VI's wife
5th - Bodi Rapp, [Johanna PAC Goetmakers], Dutch mezzo-soprano/teacher
6th - Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
7th - Taylor Caldwell, novelist
8th - Josephine Holt Bay, 1st woman to head a firm on NY stock exchange
8th - Victor Young, Chic Ill, orch leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old Calif)
10th - Arthur Porritt, NZ, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924)
10th - Norma Shearer, Montreal Quebec, actress (Divorcee, Idiot's Delight)
11th - Alexander Mosolov, Kiev Russia, composer (Zavod) [NS]
11th - Charles William Paddock, Texas, 100m runner (Olympic-2 gold-1920)
11th - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
12th - Jose Ignacio Prieto Arrizubieta, composer
12th - Wilhelm Steinitz, Germany, 1st chess champ (1866-1894)
14th - Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer
15th - Estelle Brody, NYC, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything)
17th - Quincy Howe, Boston Mass, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
18th - Walter O'Keefe, Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
18th - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
19th - Colleen Moore, Port Huron MI, actress (Scarlet Letter)
19th - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
20th - Edward J "Murt" O'Donoghue, snooker player, 1st witnessed 147 break
21st - Eileen Percy, Belfast Ireland, silent film actress (Let's Go)
22nd - Elizabeth Bergner, Vienna Austria, actress (Catherine the Great)
22nd - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
23rd - Ernst Krenek, Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf)
23rd - Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
24th - Preston Foster, Ocean City NJ, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger)
25th - Mary Bruce, dance Teacher
26th - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
29th - Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou)
30th - Franklin C Fry, US minister (Lutheran World Relief)
31st - Roland Culver, London England, actor (Thunderball, Encore)
31st - Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 10 of 10
4th - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
5th - James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80
6th - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74
12th - James E Keeler, US astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies at 42
12th - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)
16th - Eca de Queiroz, writer, dies
19th - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
25th - Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 55
25th - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
28th - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies
