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Historical Events

Results 1 - 31 of 31

1st - Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
1st - Roermond soccer team forms in Roermond
2nd - George Bernard Shaws "You Never Can Tell," premieres in London
3rd - 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06.25
5th - "The Billboard" began weekly publication
8th - 250 grave robbers shot to death
8th - Galveston Texas, hit by hurricane; about 6,000 die
8th - John McGraw & Wilbert Robinson sign with Cardinals
11th - James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 23 for heavywgt boxing title
12th - Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed
12th - Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city
17th - British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
18th - Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga
19th - Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago
19th - World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy & Switz, opens
20th - 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months)
22nd - Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative
22nd - Edwin S Votey patents pneumatic piano player
23rd - Associated Press News Service forms in NY
24th - 34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21¼
25th - Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics
26th - British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa
27th - Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in S Africa
28th - Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds' grandstand
28th - Solar eclipse occurs
29th - 25th Preakness: H Spencer aboard Hindus wins in 1:48.4
29th - Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co
31st - British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg
31st - Piet de Law captures Lt-Col Spragges Irish Yeomanry
31st - Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074)
31st - US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 25 of 25

1st - Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine)
2nd - Helen Morgan, singer/actress (Applause, Frankie & Johnny)
5th - Charles Jewtraw, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924)
5th - Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt)
5th - Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope)
7th - Bauke Tuinstra, Dutch/Frisian notary/author (Earste Keur)
7th - Ralph Truman, London England, actor (Web of Evidence)
12th - Helene Weigel, Austria/German actress (Metropolis, Mutter Courage)
13th - Jos Panhuysen, author (Pornographer)
14th - Billie Dove, [Lilian Bohny], NYC, actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride)
14th - Leo Smit, composer
14th - Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978)
14th - Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971)
17th - Nicolai Berezowsky, composer
17th - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's ayatollah (1979-89)
18th - Sarah Miriam Peale, US, portrait painter (Gen Lafayette-1825)
22nd - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (d. 1979)
23rd - Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
24th - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician (d. 1954)
24th - Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
25th - Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975)
27th - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
28th - Owen Aisher, president (Marley)
28th - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
31st - Helma Wolf-Catz, Dutch author (Undercurrent, Coral Reef)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 6 of 6

5th - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
7th - Richard Storrs Willis, composer, dies at 81
18th - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
20th - Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer, dies at 80
31st - James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1871-75), dies at 75
31st - John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle