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| Born : | 07/14/1874 | 'Abbas II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914) |
| Born : | 02/09/1874 | Amy Lowell, US, critic/Imagist poet (Patterns) |
| Born : | 07/14/1874 | Andr‚ Debierne, French chemist/physicist (Actinium) |
| Born : | 03/14/1874 | Anton F Philips, president-director of Philips |
| Born : | 11/29/1874 | Ant¢nio Egas Moniz, Portugal, lobotomist (Nobel 1949) |
| Born : | 07/03/1874 | Apirana Turupa Ngata, Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader |
| Born : | 09/13/1874 | Arnold Schonberg, Vienna Austria, composer (Second Quartet) |
| Born : | 06/16/1874 | Arthur Meighen, (C) 9th PM of Canada (1920-21, 1926) |
| Born : | 08/16/1874 | Arthur Meighen, Canada, PM of Canada (1920, 21, 26) |
| Born : | 01/24/1874 | Arthur Shomburg, famous African |
| Born : | 03/05/1874 | Arthur Von Schendel, writer (1 Rover Verliefd) |
| Born : | 11/15/1874 | August Krogh, Denmark, physiologist (Nobel-1920) |
| Born : | 09/17/1874 | Ben[jamin] Turpin, US, comic (Uncle Tom without the cabin) |
| Born : | 11/18/1874 | Carrie White, 11/1990 (oldest living American) |
| Born : | 11/18/1874 | Carrie White, oldest US woman (dies Nov 1990 at 116) |
| Born : | 11/27/1874 | Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman (1st President) |
| Born : | 11/27/1874 | Charles A Beard, American historian (American Continentalism) |
| Born : | 10/20/1874 | Charles Edward Ives, Danbury Ct, composer (Holliday Quick Step) |
| Born : | 11/18/1874 | Clarence Shepard Day, NYC, author (Life with Father) |
| Born : | 05/12/1874 | Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (Reactie of Pirquet) |
| Born : | 04/14/1874 | Count Alexander, of Athlone, gov-gen (South-Africa/Canada) |
| Born : | 04/30/1874 | Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest/writer |
| Born : | 05/22/1874 | Daniel F Malan, premier of South-Africa (1948-54) |
| Born : | 05/27/1874 | Dustin Farnum, US, actor (Squaw Man, Virginian) [or 1870] |
| Born : | 11/26/1874 | Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French author (Ecoute Isra‰l) |
| Born : | 03/12/1874 | Edmund Eysler, Austria composer |
| Born : | 06/14/1874 | Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour) |
| Born : | 02/11/1874 | Elsa Beskow, [Maartman], Swedish children's book/fairy tales author |
| Born : | 02/15/1874 | Ernest H Shackleton, Ireland, explorer (Endurance, Antarctica) |
| Born : | 07/28/1874 | Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator (Essay on Man) |
| Born : | 04/19/1874 | Firmin Baes, Flemish painter |
| Born : | 05/20/1874 | Folkert E Posthuma, minister of Agriculture/Industry |
| Born : | 05/03/1874 | Fran‡ois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker |
| Born : | 02/03/1874 | Gertrude Stein, Penn, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas) |
| Born : | 05/29/1874 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton, England, novelist (Man Who Made Gold) |
| Born : | 04/25/1874 | Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio) (Nobel 1909) |
| Born : | 09/21/1874 | Gustav Holst, Cheltenham, England, composer (Planets) |
| Born : | 03/15/1874 | Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician |
| Born : | 03/24/1874 | Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist |
| Born : | 04/06/1874 | Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Hungary, famous magician/escape artist |
| Born : | 05/26/1874 | Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker) |
| Born : | 03/05/1874 | Henry Travers, England, actor (Bells of St Mary, High Sierra) |
| Born : | 08/10/1874 | Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933) |
| Born : | 01/25/1874 | Hewlett Johnson, author (Red blanket of Canterbury) |
| Born : | 02/24/1874 | Honus Wagner, HOF shortstop for Pittsburgh Pirates (1900-17) |
| Born : | 02/01/1874 | Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist |
| Born : | 08/10/1874 | James (Tod) Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style |
| Born : | 03/01/1874 | Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise B Courtenay], Princess of Neth |
| Born : | 04/15/1874 | Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919) |
| Born : | 01/29/1874 | John David Rockefeller Jr, Cleveland Ohio, philanthropist |
| Born : | 04/24/1874 | John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial) |
| Born : | 01/04/1874 | Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer (Asrael) |
| Born : | 01/05/1874 | Joseph Erlanger, doctor (shock therapy-Nobel 1944) |
| Born : | 08/15/1874 | Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert |
| Born : | 01/13/1874 | Jozef E of Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechelen |
| Born : | 12/21/1874 | Juan Bautista Sacasa, pres of Nicaragua (1932-36) |
| Born : | 08/27/1874 | Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931) |
| Born : | 03/17/1874 | Kincsem, horse that never lost a race |
| Born : | 02/23/1874 | Konstantin P„ts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40) |
| Born : | 03/24/1874 | Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55) |
| Born : | 02/06/1874 | Milton Bennett Medary, US, architect (Washington Chapel) |
| Born : | 12/26/1874 | Norman Angell, [Lane], English cowboy/journalist (Nobel 1933) |
| Born : | 12/11/1874 | Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Student of Prag) |
| Born : | 03/26/1874 | Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken) |
| Born : | 01/16/1874 | Robert Service, England, Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee) |
| Born : | 07/26/1874 | Serge Koussevitzky, Vishny-Volotchok, Russia conductor (Boston Symp) |
| Born : | 04/28/1874 | Sidney Toler, US actor (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight) |
| Born : | 01/25/1874 | Somerset W Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage) |
| Born : | 03/17/1874 | Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America |
| Born : | 02/17/1874 | Thomas J Watson, US, representative/founder (IBM) |
| Born : | 01/14/1874 | Thornton Waldo Burgess, author (Peter Rabbit) |
| Born : | 10/20/1874 | Viscount Palmerston, (Whig) British PM (1855-65) |
| Born : | 02/09/1874 | Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical producer/director/actor |
| Born : | 04/24/1874 | Willem E Roelofs, painter/cartoonist |
| Born : | 12/17/1874 | William Lyon Mackenzie King, (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48) |
| Born : | 01/22/1874 | Wincenty Witoz, Galicia, PM of Poland (1920-21, 1923, 1926) |
| Born : | 11/30/1874 | Winston Churchill, (C) Brit PM (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953) |
| Died : | 01/17/1874 | Chang & Eng Bunker, Siamese twins, die |
| Died : | 03/11/1874 | Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63 |
| Died : | 02/08/1874 | David F Strauss, German theologist, dies |
| Died : | 06/22/1874 | Howard Staunton, world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, dies |
| Died : | 11/09/1874 | Israel Bak, created 1st hebrew printing press, dies |
| Died : | 08/27/1874 | Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies |
| Died : | 08/27/1874 | John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies |
| Died : | 02/09/1874 | Jules Michelet, French historian (Lesson of R‚volution), dies |
| Died : | 03/08/1874 | Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74 |
| Died : | 04/19/1874 | Owen Jones, architect, dies |
| Died : | 08/22/1874 | Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, dies |
| Died : | 07/11/1874 | Xavier FMG earl Merode, Belg pontifical defense minister, dies at 54 |
| Special : | 04/05/1874 | "Die Fledermaus" 1st performed (Vienna) |
| Special : | 08/26/1874 | 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee |
| Special : | 06/20/1874 | 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons) |
| Special : | 07/01/1874 | 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000 |
| Special : | 05/14/1874 | 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats McGill 3-0 |
| Special : | 07/30/1874 | 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles |
| Special : | 11/07/1874 | 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast |
| Special : | 05/16/1874 | 1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg Mass) |
| Special : | 12/15/1874 | 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant |
| Special : | 01/17/1874 | Armed Democrats seize Texas govt ending Radical Reconstruction |
| Special : | 04/19/1874 | Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire |
| Special : | 02/27/1874 | Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds |
| Special : | 01/13/1874 | Battle between workers & police in NYC, 100s injuried |
| Special : | 02/21/1874 | Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier |
| Special : | 02/18/1874 | C H F Peters discovers asteroid #135 Hertha |
| Special : | 06/22/1874 | Dr Andrew T Sill, of Macon, Missouri, finds science of osteopathy |
| Special : | 11/17/1874 | Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire & sinks off Auckland, NZ |
| Special : | 10/10/1874 | Fiji becomes a British possession |
| Special : | 06/28/1874 | Freedmen's Bank closes |
| Special : | 01/14/1874 | I D Shadd elected Speaker of the lower house of the Miss legislature |
| Special : | 10/10/1874 | J C Watson discovers asteroid #139 Juewa |
| Special : | 03/18/1874 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #136 Austria |
| Special : | 04/21/1874 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #137 Meliboea |
| Special : | 10/13/1874 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #140 Siwa |
| Special : | 05/19/1874 | J Perrotin discovers asteroid #138 Tolosa |
| Special : | 11/03/1874 | James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti |
| Special : | 01/31/1874 | Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri |
| Special : | 12/08/1874 | Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas |
| Special : | 11/24/1874 | Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire |
| Special : | 05/20/1874 | Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz |
| Special : | 07/29/1874 | Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court |
| Special : | 11/18/1874 | National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland |
| Special : | 01/01/1874 | New York City annexes the Bronx |
| Special : | 02/21/1874 | Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication |
| Special : | 07/12/1874 | Ontario Agricultural College founded |
| Special : | 07/31/1874 | Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U |
| Special : | 05/13/1874 | Pope Pius IX encyclical "On Greek-Ruthenian rite" |
| Special : | 12/24/1874 | Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875 |
| Special : | 05/29/1874 | Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect |
| Special : | 03/10/1874 | Purdue University (Indiana) admits it's 1st student |
| Special : | 04/18/1874 | Remains of David Livingstone interred in Westminster Abbey |
| Special : | 11/04/1874 | Samuel J Tilden elected governor of NY |
| Special : | 07/04/1874 | Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed |
| Special : | 07/12/1874 | Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "Gloria Scott" (BG) |
| Special : | 09/01/1874 | Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia |
| Special : | 01/24/1874 | The opera "Boris Godounow" is produced (St Petersburg Russia) |
| Special : | 05/12/1874 | US Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized |
| Special : | 03/21/1874 | US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House |
| Special : | 01/13/1874 | US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king |
| Special : | 05/09/1874 | Victoria Embankment, in London opens |
| Special : | 04/27/1874 | White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms |
| Special : | 03/22/1874 | Young Men's Hebrew Association founded in NYC |
| Special : | 04/12/1874 | 22øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC |
| Special : | 04/29/1874 | 32øF highest temperature for this date in NYC |
| Special : | 04/30/1874 | 32øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC |
| Special : | 05/03/1874 | 33øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC |
| Special : | 01/23/1874 | 63øF highest temperature for this date in NYC |
| Special : | 02/23/1874 | 72øF highest temperature for this date in NYC |
| Special : | 12/15/1874 | 8øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC |
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