Today in History for February 1906

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 14 of 14

1st - 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
1st - English min of Frgn affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured
2nd - Pope encyclical against separation of church & state
9th - Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising
10th - Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
10th - State of siege proclaimed in Zululand
12th - George Cohans musical "George Washington," premieres in NYC
15th - British Labour Party organizes
18th - Vincent d'Indy's "Jour D'été à La Montagne," premieres in Paris
19th - WK Kellogg & Ch Bolin find Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co
22nd - Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif
23rd - Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
27th - France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
28th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queen's U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 41 of 41

1st - Hildegarde, Adell Wisc, night club vocalist (I'll Be Seeing You)
1st - Pierre Cardevielle, French composer/conductor (Amants Captifs)
3rd - Ludvig Nielsen, composer
4th - Clyde William Tombaugh, US, astronomer (discovered Pluto)
4th - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist (Confessing Church)
4th - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (champ-1933)
5th - John Carradine, Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling)
7th - Henry P'u-i, last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
7th - Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
8th - Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist (Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein)
8th - Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopy)
8th - Henry Roth, Austria-Hungary/US writer (Call it Sleep)
9th - Gwen Catley, British(?) soprano
9th - André Kostolany, stock market expert and speculator (d. 1999)
10th - Erik Rhodes, [Ernest Sharpe], actor (Top Hat, Night at the Ritz)
10th - Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist
10th - John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
10th - Lon Chaney Jr, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
10th - Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis
11th - Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal
13th - Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994)
15th - Stephen Brown, CEO (Stone-Platt Industries)
16th - Jeffrey Lynn, actor (Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front)
16th - Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ (1927)
17th - Galo Plaza Lasso, pres of Ecuador (1948-52), head of OAS (1968-75)
17th - Ramon Tapales, composer
18th - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
19th - Grace Mary Williams, composer
19th - Hendrik W C Spruit, Dutch conductor
22nd - Edmund von Borck, composer
22nd - Gale Gordon, LA California, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
24th - Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
25th - Boris Papandopulo, composer
25th - Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter
25th - Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act
25th - Warren Hymer, NYC, actor (Girl From Havana, Meet the Mob)
26th - Madeleine Carroll, England, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent)
26th - Nikos Ghika, artist
27th - Alexander Matheson, NZ cricket pace bowler (2 Tests 1930-31)
27th - H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold, English diplomat (South Africa/Tibet)
28th - Bugsy Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

17th - 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 8 of 8

9th - Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio
10th - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
13th - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
18th - Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic, dies at 85
18th - John Batterson Stetson, American manufacturer (b. 1830)
23rd - Johann Hoch, US murderer, executed
25th - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer/conductor c t, dies at 44
26th - Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer, dies at 70