Today in History for February 1914
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 18 of 18
1st - NY Giants & Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
1st - Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
1st - Tanganyika Railway opens
2nd - James Royce Shannon's musical "Shameen Dhu," premieres in NYC
4th - US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
7th - Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
7th - Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, SF
8th - General Zamon becomes president of Haiti
12th - In Washington, DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
13th - American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC
14th - High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
16th - 1st airplane flight (LA to SF)
19th - Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini," premieres in Turin
21st - White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China
24th - Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks," premieres in NYC
26th - New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated
26th - HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast.
28th - Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (SF)
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 58 of 58
2nd - Eric Kierans, Canadian politician and economist (d. 2004)
3rd - Cornelis "Kees" Andrea, Dutch painter/graphic artist/carpet designer
3rd - Felix Kelly, artist
4th - Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head)
4th - Ida Lupino, London England, actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
5th - Alan Hodgkin, British physicist (Nobel 1963)
5th - William S Burroughs, St Louis, novelist (Naked Lunch)
6th - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
7th - David Ignatow, US poet (Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead)
7th - Jacques Mornard, [Ramon Mercader], murderer (Trotsky)
7th - Ralph Whitlock, writer
8th - Bert Haas, baseball player
8th - Jules van Ackere, Flemish musicologist (Eternal Music)
9th - Bill "Rhymes with Wreck" Veeck, baseball club owner
9th - Ernest Tubb, Tx, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)
9th - Gypsy Rose Lee, Seattle Wash, stripper (or 0109 or 0208)
9th - Max Manus, resistance fighter
9th - Ralph Herman, Milwaukee Wisc, orch leader (Circus Time)
10th - Larry Adler, Balt, hamonicist (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer)
11th - French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer
11th - Matt Dennis, Seattle Wash, vocalist (Matt Dennis Show)
11th - Menelaos Pallantios, composer
11th - Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam
12th - Gordon Tex Beneke, saxophonist/bandleader/vocalist (Glenn Miller Orch)
12th - Nello Celio, Swiss president
12th - Arvid Pardo, Maltese diplomat, a.k.a "Father of the Law of the Sea Conference" (d. 1999)
13th - Earl Cadogan, British large landowner (Military Cross)
13th - George Kleinsinger, San Bernardino CA, composer (Tubby the Tuba)
14th - Margarete Mewes, Nazi overseer at concentration camp
14th - Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (d. 2007)
15th - Arthur Sydney Martin, spy catcher
15th - Kevin McCarthy, Seattle, actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers, Howling)
15th - R W Woods, bishop (Worcester)
15th - Hale Boggs, American politician (d. 1972)
16th - J Tobin, British anaesthetist
16th - Jimmy Wakely, Mineola Ark, country vocalist (5 Star Jubilee)
17th - Albert Westerlinck, [Jose J M Aerts], Flemish literary
17th - Arthur Kennedy, Worcester Mass, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place)
17th - Per-Jakez Helias, writer/teacher
17th - [Bert de] Wayne Morris, LA Calif, WW II-pilot/actor (Paths of Glory)
18th - Edward George Edwards, chemist
18th - Pee Wee King, Milwaukee Wisc, country vocalist (Pee Wee King Song)
19th - Jacques Dufilho, French comedian (d. 2005)
20th - John Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line)
20th - Marion Kettlewell, British director (WRNS)
20th - Willem J H Baart, Dutch vicar (Cuentanan di Nanzi)
21st - Arnold S Denker, NY, US chess champion (1944-46)
21st - Hermanus P "Piet" Mulder, Dutch journalist (Parool/VARA)
22nd - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
23rd - Margaret Farrer, CEO (Central Midwives Board)
23rd - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
24th - David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator
24th - Zachary Scott, Austin Tx, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce)
24th - Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (d. 2005)
25th - John Arlott, cricketer (the doyen of cricket commentators & writers)
26th - Robert Alda, NYC, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand)
26th - Witold Rowicki, composer
28th - Jim Boles, Lubbock Tx, actor (Joe-One Man's Family)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 3 of 3
6th - J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Hague School), dies at 69
24th - Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
25th - John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
