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Historical Events

Results 201 - 229 of 229

Oct 28th - After over 5 months 2nd Olympic games in Paris France, close
Oct 30th - 1st-ever US auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in NYC
Oct 31st - AL pres Ban Johnson writes to NL pres Nick Young seeking peace
Nov 3rd - 1st US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
Nov 6th - Battle at Bothaville: gen-mjr Charles Knox beats Boers
Nov 6th - Pres William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan
Nov 7th - Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
Nov 8th - Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
Nov 12th - World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors)
Nov 13th - Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
Nov 29th - Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in S Afr
Nov 30th - A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
Dec 1st - South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders
Dec 2nd - South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany
Dec 7th - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
Dec 9th - Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession
Dec 12th - National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing," composed
Dec 13th - Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten
Dec 14th - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Dec 16th - Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony
Dec 17th - 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy
Dec 17th - New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
Dec 18th - The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
Dec 20th - Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
Dec 21st - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer," premieres in Berlin
Dec 24th - Herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam
Dec 25th - Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany
Dec 27th - Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)
Dec 29th - General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia

Famous Birthdays

Results 201 - 300 of 408

Jul 3rd - John Mason Brown, Louisville Ky, critic (Tonight on Broadway)
Jul 4th - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, New Orleans LA, jazz musician (Hello Dolly)
Jul 5th - Bernardus J Cardinal Alfrink, cardinal of Utrecht Netherlands
Jul 6th - Emil Barth, writer
Jul 6th - Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright
Jul 7th - Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
Jul 8th - George Antheil, Trenton NJ, composer (Airplane Sonata)
Jul 9th - Robert Oboussier, composer
Jul 10th - Bob Catterall, cricketer (dashing South African batsman of 20's)
Jul 10th - Elsie Evelyn Laye, English singer/actress (Bitter Sweet, Merry Widow)
Jul 10th - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker (d. 1979)
Jul 10th - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
Jul 12th - Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev, Russian poet (Life of Tchernyshevsky)
Jul 13th - JH Scheps, Dutch 2nd-Member of parliament (social democratic)
Jul 13th - George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969)
Jul 17th - James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), hold that grapefruit
Jul 18th - Nathalie Sarraute, French writer (d. 1999)
Jul 19th - Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Reich sculptor
Jul 19th - Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier
Jul 19th - Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer
Jul 20th - Gottfried von Haberler, Austrian economist
Jul 20th - Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist (Maria's Life)
Jul 20th - Maurice Leyland, prolific cricket left-handed batsman (England)
Jul 24th - Zelda Fitzgerald, 1st wife of F Scott
Jul 25th - Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola)
Jul 27th - Charles Vidor, Budapest Hungary, direct (Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl)
Jul 27th - Hans Haug, composer
Jul 28th - Maurice Johnstone, composer
Jul 29th - Alexander Vasil'yevich Mosolov, composer [OS]
Jul 29th - Don Redman, Piedmont WV, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times)
Jul 29th - Eyvind Johnson, Sweden, novelist (Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974)
Jul 29th - Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
Jul 31st - Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll)
Jul 31st - Erich Katz, composer
Aug 1st - Otto Nothling, cricketer (Test for Australia 1928, 52 runs aver 26)
Aug 2nd - Helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause)
Aug 2nd - Marinus Adam, Dutch conductor/composer
Aug 3rd - Arnoldus J N M Struycken, Dutch lawyer
Aug 3rd - Ernie Pyle, England, correspondent during WW II
Aug 3rd - John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution
Aug 4th - Arturo Umberto Illia, pres of Argentina (1963-66)
Aug 4th - Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch)
Aug 4th - Elizabeth, Queen Mother Of England, King George VI's wife
Aug 5th - Bodi Rapp, [Johanna PAC Goetmakers], Dutch mezzo-soprano/teacher
Aug 6th - Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
Aug 7th - Taylor Caldwell, novelist
Aug 8th - Josephine Holt Bay, 1st woman to head a firm on NY stock exchange
Aug 8th - Victor Young, Chic Ill, orch leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old Calif)
Aug 10th - Arthur Porritt, NZ, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924)
Aug 10th - Norma Shearer, Montreal Quebec, actress (Divorcee, Idiot's Delight)
Aug 11th - Alexander Mosolov, Kiev Russia, composer (Zavod) [NS]
Aug 11th - Charles William Paddock, Texas, 100m runner (Olympic-2 gold-1920)
Aug 11th - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
Aug 12th - Jose Ignacio Prieto Arrizubieta, composer
Aug 12th - Wilhelm Steinitz, Germany, 1st chess champ (1866-1894)
Aug 14th - Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer
Aug 15th - Estelle Brody, NYC, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything)
Aug 17th - Quincy Howe, Boston Mass, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
Aug 18th - Walter O'Keefe, Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
Aug 18th - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
Aug 19th - Colleen Moore, Port Huron MI, actress (Scarlet Letter)
Aug 19th - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
Aug 20th - Edward J "Murt" O'Donoghue, snooker player, 1st witnessed 147 break
Aug 21st - Eileen Percy, Belfast Ireland, silent film actress (Let's Go)
Aug 22nd - Elizabeth Bergner, Vienna Austria, actress (Catherine the Great)
Aug 22nd - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
Aug 23rd - Ernst Krenek, Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf)
Aug 23rd - Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
Aug 24th - Preston Foster, Ocean City NJ, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger)
Aug 25th - Mary Bruce, dance Teacher
Aug 26th - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
Aug 29th - Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou)
Aug 30th - Franklin C Fry, US minister (Lutheran World Relief)
Aug 31st - Roland Culver, London England, actor (Thunderball, Encore)
Aug 31st - Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943)
Sep 1st - Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht)
Sep 1st - Kazimierz Wilkomirski, composer
Sep 1st - Richard Arlen, Virginia, actor (Alice in Wonderland, Crawling Hand)
Sep 3rd - Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president Finland (1956-81)
Sep 4th - Cornelis Verolme, Dutch ship builder
Sep 6th - Julien Green, US/French writer (Frere Francois)
Sep 6th - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
Sep 7th - "Janet" Taylor Caldwell, England, novelist (Melissa)
Sep 7th - Emerson Treacy, Phila, actor (California Straight Ahead)
Sep 8th - Claude D Pepper, (Rep-D-FL, 1963- ), old people's advocate
Sep 9th - James Hilton, English novelist (Goodbye Mr Chips)
Sep 11th - D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman (d. 1999)
Sep 12th - Eric Harding Thiman, composer
Sep 14th - Sidney Marion, MA, entertainer
Sep 15th - Larry Kent, CA, director (High Stakes)
Sep 17th - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
Sep 17th - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
Sep 19th - Solomon Pimsleur, composer
Sep 20th - Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/pres (1964-67)
Sep 20th - Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer
Sep 20th - Wilhelm Weismann, composer
Sep 22nd - William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967)
Sep 22nd - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
Sep 23rd - Louise Nevelson, US, sculptor (Sky Cathedral)
Sep 23rd - Bill Stone, British serviceman; one of the last surviving veterans of World War I

Famous Deaths

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