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| Born : | 01/28/1873 | "Sidonie Gabrielle" Colette, Burgundy France, novelist (Ch‚ri, Gigi) |
| Born : | 01/07/1873 | Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount) |
| Born : | 06/28/1873 | Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel 1912) |
| Born : | 01/02/1873 | Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics) |
| Born : | 12/01/1873 | Charles JM Ruys de Beerenbrouck, premier of Neth (1918-25, 29-33 |
| Born : | 01/07/1873 | Charles Pierre P‚guy, Orl‚ans Fr, Catholic writer (God Speaks) |
| Born : | 08/04/1873 | Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War |
| Born : | 11/20/1873 | Daniel Gregory Mason, Brookline Mass, composer (Chanticker) |
| Born : | 09/08/1873 | David O McKay, Huntsville, Utah, 9th pres of Mormon church |
| Born : | 05/17/1873 | Dorothy Miller Richardson, novelist |
| Born : | 10/08/1873 | Ejnar Hertzsprung, Denmark, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram) |
| Born : | 08/20/1873 | Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich) |
| Born : | 04/22/1873 | Ellen Anderson Glasgow, US, novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942) |
| Born : | 04/22/1873 | Ellen Glasgow, US, novelist (Pulitzer-1942) |
| Born : | 05/21/1873 | Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian |
| Born : | 02/25/1873 | Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust) |
| Born : | 02/26/1873 | Ewoud van Everdingen, meteorologist |
| Born : | 02/11/1873 | Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life) |
| Born : | 12/17/1873 | Ford Madox Ford, England, novelist/editor (Inheritors) |
| Born : | 10/30/1873 | Francisco Madero, Mexico, revolutionary, president (1911-13) |
| Born : | 02/02/1873 | Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, operatta composer (Dollar Princess) |
| Born : | 11/04/1873 | G E Moore, English philosopher (Ethics) |
| Born : | 10/21/1873 | George P Gooch, English historian/Lower house leader |
| Born : | 10/29/1873 | Guillermo Valencia, Colombia, poet/translator/statesman |
| Born : | 09/01/1873 | Guy Standing, English actor (Cradle Song) |
| Born : | 04/28/1873 | Harold Bauer, English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association) |
| Born : | 01/09/1873 | Hayyim Nahman Bialik, R„di Ukraine, Hebrew poet/translator |
| Born : | 05/17/1873 | Henri Barbusse, French writer (Le Feu) |
| Born : | 11/10/1873 | Henri Rabaud, Paris France, composer (Le Premer Glaire) |
| Born : | 06/21/1873 | Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle) |
| Born : | 03/16/1873 | Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit) |
| Born : | 05/09/1873 | Howard Carter, British archaeologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb) |
| Born : | 08/11/1873 | J Rosamond Johnson, Fla, co-composer (Lift Every Voice & Sing) |
| Born : | 03/10/1873 | Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew) |
| Born : | 05/10/1873 | Jan Kalf, literary/art historian (Preservation of museums) |
| Born : | 10/19/1873 | Jap Eden, World Champion bicyclist/skater |
| Born : | 03/14/1873 | Joannes DJ Aengenent, sociologist/bishop of Haarlem (1928-35) |
| Born : | 01/20/1873 | Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet (Energy Storage, Nobel 1944) |
| Born : | 02/12/1873 | J¢n Trausti, [Gudmundur Magn£sson], Icelandic writer (Heidarbylid) |
| Born : | 10/09/1873 | Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect) |
| Born : | 01/06/1873 | Karl Straube, German organist/conductor |
| Born : | 11/24/1873 | L Martov, [Joel˜ O Tsederbaum], Russian revolutionary |
| Born : | 08/26/1873 | Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube) |
| Born : | 08/18/1873 | Leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Othello) |
| Born : | 05/09/1873 | Lilian Mary Baylis, manager (Old Vic & Sadler's Wells Theater) |
| Born : | 01/29/1873 | Luigi A hertog der Abruzzen, Italy, explorer/climber (Mt St Elias) |
| Born : | 03/17/1873 | Margaret Bondfield, Brit union leader/1st woman cabinet member |
| Born : | 01/01/1873 | Mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist (The Flies, The Bosses) |
| Born : | 03/19/1873 | Max Reger, Brand Bavaria, composer/pianist/prof (Leipzig Univ) |
| Born : | 09/08/1873 | Max Reinhardt, Austria, theatrical director (Oedipus Rex) |
| Born : | 02/22/1873 | Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher |
| Born : | 05/03/1873 | Nikolay Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs (OS) |
| Born : | 08/18/1873 | Otto Harbach, songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) |
| Born : | 07/06/1873 | Paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich) |
| Born : | 10/14/1873 | Raymond C Ewry, Indiana, polio victim who won 10 Olympic golds |
| Born : | 03/25/1873 | Rudolf Rocker, German/US anarchist |
| Born : | 04/01/1873 | Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Provine Russia, (Prelude in C# Minor) |
| Born : | 04/24/1873 | Theodor K”rner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president |
| Born : | 10/26/1873 | Thorvald Stauning, Denmark, PM (1924-26, 1929-42) |
| Born : | 11/16/1873 | W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, Alabama, jazz star (St Louis Blues) |
| Born : | 09/28/1873 | Waclaw Rawicz, [Berent], Polish biologist/writer |
| Born : | 04/25/1873 | Walter De la Mare, English poet/anthologist (Behold the Dreamer) |
| Born : | 12/07/1873 | Willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia) |
| Born : | 11/20/1873 | Willem Ro‰ll, general/founder (Ordedienst) |
| Born : | 03/03/1873 | William Green, president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52) |
| Died : | 04/29/1873 | Alida JM Tartaud-Little, actress/stage star (Rotterdams Stage), dies |
| Died : | 08/31/1873 | Charles F Pahud de Montagnes, gov-gen (Dutch East Indies), dies at 70 |
| Died : | 10/02/1873 | Cornelius Varley, water-color painter, dies |
| Died : | 06/14/1873 | Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92 |
| Died : | 12/14/1873 | J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies |
| Died : | 10/29/1873 | Johan N M J, king of Saxon (1854-73), dies |
| Died : | 05/08/1873 | John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66 |
| Died : | 11/03/1873 | Kintpuash, "Captain Jack", chief of Modoc-indians, dies |
| Died : | 10/03/1873 | Kintpuash, [Captain Jack], fought Modoc indians, Oregon, dies |
| Died : | 09/20/1873 | Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poetess/writer, dies |
| Interest: | 11/07/1873 | [Luth] Commemoration of John Heyer, missionary to India |
| Special : | 01/14/1873 | "Celluloid" registered as a trademark |
| Special : | 08/14/1873 | "Forest & Stream" begins publishing |
| Special : | 09/17/1873 | 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University |
| Special : | 05/27/1873 | 1st Preakness Stakes won by Survivor (2:43) |
| Special : | 05/01/1873 | 1st US postal card issued |
| Special : | 08/18/1873 | 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, Calif (14,494') |
| Special : | 06/04/1873 | 1st contract workers of British-Indie Co arrives in Suriname |
| Special : | 12/06/1873 | 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1 |
| Special : | 01/11/1873 | 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago |
| Special : | 08/02/1873 | 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones |
| Special : | 08/23/1873 | Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens |
| Special : | 07/04/1873 | Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens |
| Special : | 11/12/1873 | Bay District Race Track opens |
| Special : | 09/19/1873 | Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic |
| Special : | 04/01/1873 | British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die |
| Special : | 02/05/1873 | C H F Peters discovers asteroid #129 Antigone |
| Special : | 02/17/1873 | C H F Peters discovers asteroid #130 Elektra |
| Special : | 05/24/1873 | C H F Peters discovers asteroid #131 Vala |
| Special : | 05/23/1873 | Canada's North West Mounted Police force established |
| Special : | 04/13/1873 | Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed) |
| Special : | 10/18/1873 | Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football |
| Special : | 02/12/1873 | Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins |
| Special : | 03/03/1873 | Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps |
| Special : | 11/04/1873 | Dentist John Beers of SF patents gold crown |
| Special : | 07/10/1873 | French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol |
| Special : | 06/02/1873 | Ground broken on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad |
| Special : | 07/01/1873 | Henry Flipper of Ga is 2nd black to enter West Point |
| Special : | 05/01/1873 | International Exhibition opens in Wien (Vienna) |
| Special : | 06/13/1873 | J C Watson discovers asteroid #132 Aethra |
| Special : | 08/16/1873 | J C Watson discovers asteroid #133 Cyrene |
| Special : | 07/21/1873 | Jesse James & James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa) |
| Special : | 09/15/1873 | Last German troops leave France |
| Special : | 04/01/1873 | Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeirs in Constantinople |
| Special : | 01/01/1873 | Origin of Japanese Era |
| Special : | 01/14/1873 | P B S Pinchback elected to Senate |
| Special : | 01/13/1873 | P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor |
| Special : | 01/06/1873 | Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia" |
| Special : | 05/23/1873 | Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time |
| Special : | 06/16/1873 | Pres Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perc‚ indians |
| Special : | 07/01/1873 | Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province |
| Special : | 06/22/1873 | Prince Edward Island joins Canada |
| Special : | 09/27/1873 | R Luther discovers asteroid #134 Sophrosyne |
| Special : | 09/06/1873 | Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street |
| Special : | 03/09/1873 | Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded |
| Special : | 08/01/1873 | SF's 1st cable car begins service |
| Special : | 03/23/1873 | Slavery is abolish in Puerto Rico |
| Special : | 03/22/1873 | Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico |
| Special : | 02/11/1873 | Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I |
| Special : | 04/01/1873 | Steamer 'Atlantic' sank off Nova Scotia drowning 481 |
| Special : | 06/18/1873 | Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President |
| Special : | 09/23/1873 | Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title |
| Special : | 02/20/1873 | U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) |
| Special : | 01/06/1873 | US Congress begins investigating Cr‚dit Mobilier scandal |
| Special : | 03/03/1873 | US Congress raises own salary, retroactively |
| Special : | 05/07/1873 | US marines attack Panama |
| Special : | 02/24/1873 | -1øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC |
| Special : | 11/20/1873 | 20øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC |
| Special : | 05/04/1873 | 37øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC |
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