Today in History for January 1907

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 14 of 14

1st - Pres Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day
4th - George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," premieres in London
6th - Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
7th - Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in NYC
12th - Britain grants responsible government to former colony of Transvaal
14th - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
15th - 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee De Forest
15th - Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them
21st - Kenora Thistles sweep Mont Wanderers in 2 for Stanley Cup
23rd - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
25th - Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
26th - 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed
26th - J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called
26th - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 35 of 35

1st - Erich Schmid, composer
2nd - Edward Albert Radice, economist
2nd - Salvador Ley, composer
3rd - Anna May Wong, LA California, actress (Impact, Study in Scarlet)
5th - Anton Ingolic, Slavic author (After Splavih, After Prelomu)
5th - Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor
5th - Willi Soukop, sculptor
6th - David Fleay, Australian naturalist (d. 1993)
7th - Nicanor Zabaleta, San Sebastian, Spain, harpist
11th - Pierre Mendès-France, French Premier (1954-55) (d. 1982)
12th - Sergei Korolev, scientist
12th - Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981)
13th - Sabine Zlatin, nurse
14th - Derek Richter, British neuro chemist (Aspects of learning & memory)
14th - Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician
14th - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (d. 1985)
16th - Alexander Knox, Canada, actor (Gorky Park, 2 of a Kind)
16th - Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist
16th - Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
17th - Henk H Badings, Bandung Indonesia, Dutch opera composer (Orestes)
18th - Janos Ferencsik, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera)
19th - Lillian Harvey, London England, actress (Invitation to the Waltz)
20th - Roy Welensky, Premier (Rhodesia/Nyasaland 1956-63)
22nd - Marie Dressler, actress (Anna Christie, Dinner at 8)
22nd - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
22nd - Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
22nd - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
23rd - Dan Duryea, White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees)
23rd - Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949)
24th - Alfonse Vranckx, Belgian lawyer/politician
24th - Maurice Couve de Murville, France premier (1968-69)
26th - Eddie Ballantine, Chicago, orchestra leader (Don McNeill TV Club)
26th - Henry Cotton, English golfer (British Open 1934, 1937, 1948)
27th - Henry Cotton, English golf champion (won 3x British Open)
28th - Constantin Regamey, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 10 of 10

1st - Cyrill Kistler, composer, dies at 58
3rd - Josef Foerster, composer, dies at 73
6th - Walter Read, cricketer (Engl batsman, 117 at no 10 v Aust 1884), dies
7th - Anton Urspruch, composer, dies at 56
8th - Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 57
14th - Karl von Perfall, composer, dies at 82
14th - Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
16th - Alfred Shaw, cricketer (seven Tests for England 1877-82), dies
25th - René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
31st - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)