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| Born : | 05/20/1894 | Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondant) |
| Born : | 07/26/1894 | Aldous L Huxley, England, author (Brave New World) |
| Born : | 06/23/1894 | Alfred Kinsey, entomologist/sexologist (Kinsey Report) |
| Born : | 12/28/1894 | Andr‚ de Meulemeester, Belgian WW I pilot (Eagle of Flanders) |
| Born : | 05/11/1894 | Anton A Mussert, Dutch political leader (NSB) |
| Born : | 12/17/1894 | Arthur Fiedler, Boston Mass, conductor (Boston Pops) |
| Born : | 07/23/1894 | Arthur Treacher, Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show) |
| Born : | 05/29/1894 | Beatrice Lillie, Toronto, comedian/actress (Around World in 80 Days) |
| Born : | 04/10/1894 | Ben Nicholson, English painter/sculptor (Circle) |
| Born : | 07/18/1894 | Bernard Wagenaar, Arnhem Holland, composer (3 Songs for Chinese) |
| Born : | 06/26/1894 | Bill Wirges, Buffalo NY, orch leader (Growing Paynes) |
| Born : | 09/12/1894 | Billy Gilbert, Louisville Ky, (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday) |
| Born : | 01/30/1894 | Boris III, czar of Bulgaria (1918-43) |
| Born : | 11/28/1894 | Brooks Atkinson, drama critic (Broadway theater namesake) |
| Born : | 10/12/1894 | Charles Hodge, Calif, NYU professor (Answers for Americans) |
| Born : | 08/27/1894 | Charles Meredith, Knoxville Pa, actor (Court of Last Resort) |
| Born : | 01/22/1894 | Charles Morgan, England, writer (Fountain) |
| Born : | 07/08/1894 | Clemens VI Trefois, Flemish architect/sociologist |
| Born : | 10/04/1894 | Cliff Hall, Bkln NY, actor (Crime Photographer) |
| Born : | 09/19/1894 | Cornelis R˜nsdorp, writer (Kings Children) |
| Born : | 11/16/1894 | Count Richard Coudenhove Kalergi, Austrian politician |
| Born : | 05/27/1894 | Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon) |
| Born : | 05/10/1894 | Dimitri Tiomkin, Russia composer (Acad Award 1954-High & Mighty) |
| Born : | 04/03/1894 | Dooley Wilson, Tyler Tx, actor (Bill-Beulah, Casablanca) |
| Born : | 08/29/1894 | E Franklin Frazier, sociologist, died in 1962 |
| Born : | 12/28/1894 | Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears) |
| Born : | 12/11/1894 | Eddie Dowling, Woonsocket RI, composer (Anywhere USA) |
| Born : | 12/09/1894 | Eddie Dowling, actor (Anywhere USA) |
| Born : | 01/15/1894 | Edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization |
| Born : | 06/23/1894 | Edward VIII, King of Great Brit/N-Ireland/emperor of India (1936) |
| Born : | 10/12/1894 | Elisabeth A de Vreugd, chambermaid of Dutch queen |
| Born : | 06/02/1894 | Erich R”mer, Germany, ice hockey player (Olympic-bronze-1932) |
| Born : | 02/25/1894 | Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!) |
| Born : | 06/08/1894 | Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist (Ogelala) |
| Born : | 11/05/1894 | Eugen Z dor, B tasz‚k, Hungary, Hungarian/American composer (Diana) |
| Born : | 09/17/1894 | Fay Compton, [Virginia Lillian Emeline Compton], actress (Haunting) |
| Born : | 08/13/1894 | Ferdinand Sassen, philosopher/director |
| Born : | 05/11/1894 | Florimond Cornellie, Belgium, yachting (Olympic-gold-1920) |
| Born : | 12/19/1894 | Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65) |
| Born : | 01/23/1894 | Franklin Pangborn, US, actor (My friend from India) |
| Born : | 05/31/1894 | Fred Allen, [John Sullivan], radio comedian (Fred Allen Show) |
| Born : | 01/27/1894 | Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star (1920-26) |
| Born : | 10/27/1894 | Fritz Sauckel, German General of Labor camps |
| Born : | 06/30/1894 | Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin (arch duke Ferdinand) |
| Born : | 06/20/1894 | George Delacorte, NYC, philanthropist/publisher (Dell Books) |
| Born : | 08/16/1894 | George Meany, NYC, labor leader (headed AFL-CIO) |
| Born : | 01/16/1894 | Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end/coach (Canton, Frankford, Cards) |
| Born : | 12/17/1894 | Hans [Henry A] Kramers, theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics) |
| Born : | 01/20/1894 | Harold L Gray, creator (Little Orphan Annie) |
| Born : | 08/03/1894 | Harry Heilmann, SF Cal, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit) |
| Born : | 11/05/1894 | Henri EJA de Page, Belgian private law scholar |
| Born : | 07/04/1894 | Henry Carlson, basketball coach (originated figure 8 play) |
| Born : | 03/05/1894 | Henry Daniell, London, actor (Camille, Phila Story, Body Snatchers) |
| Born : | 01/09/1894 | Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter, graphic artist |
| Born : | 02/19/1894 | Herb Pennock, hall of fame pitcher (Yankees, 243 career wins) |
| Born : | 06/25/1894 | Hermann Oberth, Germany, founded modern astronautics (V2/Redstone) |
| Born : | 07/13/1894 | Isaak Babel, Russian short-story writer/dramatist (Red Calvary) |
| Born : | 09/13/1894 | J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestly, author (Good Companions)/wed Jessica Hawkes |
| Born : | 02/14/1894 | Jack Benny, [Benjamin Kubelski], Waukegan, Ill, "Oh! Rochester!" |
| Born : | 12/08/1894 | James (Grover) Thurber, Columbus Ohio, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs) |
| Born : | 05/15/1894 | Jean Renoir, French director (La B‚te Humane) |
| Born : | 09/15/1894 | Jean Renoir, cin‚aste (Grand Illusion) |
| Born : | 08/24/1894 | Jean Rhys, [Ella Williams], Dominica, writer (Voyage in the Dark) |
| Born : | 06/26/1894 | Jeanne Eagels, actress (Rain, Under False Colors) |
| Born : | 08/17/1894 | Johan Polet, sculptor |
| Born : | 08/03/1894 | John H Van Maarseveen, minister of Justice/Internal minister |
| Born : | 10/26/1894 | John S Knight, WV, publisher (Knight-Rider) |
| Born : | 07/19/1894 | Joris [Georges] of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament |
| Born : | 05/29/1894 | Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Der blaue Engel) |
| Born : | 09/02/1894 | Joseph Roth, Austria, journalist/writer (Hotel Savoy) |
| Born : | 02/03/1894 | Juan Negr¡n, PM of Spanish Republic (1936-39) |
| Born : | 08/28/1894 | Karl B”hm, Austrian conductor |
| Born : | 06/20/1894 | Lloyd A Hall, Illinois, pioneer in food chemistry |
| Born : | 06/28/1894 | Lois Wilson, Pitts Pa, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family) |
| Born : | 05/27/1894 | Louis-Ferdinand C‚line, France, novelist (Journey to End of Night) |
| Born : | 06/13/1894 | Mark van Doren, Ill, author (Happy Critic) |
| Born : | 05/11/1894 | Martha Graham, Pitts, dancer/choreographer (Appalachian Spring) |
| Born : | 04/20/1894 | Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling) |
| Born : | 04/17/1894 | Nikita S Khrushchev, 1st secretary USSR (1953-64) |
| Born : | 11/26/1894 | Norbert Wiener, US, mathematician/discovered cybernetics |
| Born : | 02/03/1894 | Norman Rockwell, US, artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers) |
| Born : | 02/15/1894 | Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman (1st pres of UN) |
| Born : | 03/17/1894 | Paul Green, US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom) |
| Born : | 04/29/1894 | Paul H”rbiger, Austria actor (Liebelei) |
| Born : | 06/10/1894 | Pavel Borkovec, Czech composer (Stmivani, [Twilight]) |
| Born : | 12/31/1894 | Pola Negri, [Barbara A Chalupiec], Polish/US actress (Madame Dubarry) |
| Born : | 01/10/1894 | Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director (Obsession, The Bad Seed) |
| Born : | 01/23/1894 | Remy Angenot, Flemish actor |
| Born : | 03/02/1894 | Renat Veremans, Flemish composer/conductor |
| Born : | 07/18/1894 | Richard Dix, US actor (10 Commandments, Cimarron) |
| Born : | 12/20/1894 | Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41, 1949-66) |
| Born : | 01/02/1894 | Robert Nathan, NYC, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie) |
| Born : | 06/15/1894 | Robert Russell Bennett, Kansas City, composer/arranger (Oklahoma!) |
| Born : | 07/31/1894 | Roy Bargy, Mich, orch leader (Jimmy Durante Show) |
| Born : | 04/02/1894 | Rudolph P Cleveringa, lawyer (anti-nazi leader) |
| Born : | 05/27/1894 | Samuel Dashiell Hammett, detective story writer (Maltese Falcon) |
| Born : | 11/17/1894 | Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51) |
| Born : | 10/14/1894 | Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, founder (Indonesian Communist) |
| Born : | 11/23/1894 | Ture Persson, Sweden, sprinter (Olympic-silver-1912) |
| Born : | 11/30/1894 | Ture Rangstr”m, Stockholm Sweden, composer/critic (Kronbruden) |
| Born : | 07/02/1894 | Walter Brennan, Swampscott Mass, actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point) |
| Born : | 01/20/1894 | Walter Hamor Piston, Rockland Maine, composer (Incredible Flutis) |
| Born : | 01/20/1894 | Walter Piston, US composer |
| Born : | 01/18/1894 | Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, parapsycholoist |
| Born : | 02/10/1894 | [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, (C) British PM (1957-63) |
| Born : | 10/14/1894 | e. e. cummings, Cambridge Mass, poet (Tulips & Chimneys) |
| Died : | 12/30/1894 | Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist dies (Bloomers named for her) |
| Died : | 05/21/1894 | August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54 |
| Died : | 04/08/1894 | Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath), dies at 55 |
| Died : | 01/19/1894 | Fran‡ois Haverschmidt, writer, dies |
| Died : | 03/20/1894 | Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian nationalist, dies |
| Died : | 09/24/1894 | Martinus N˜hoff, founder N˜hoff's book publisher (Van Dale), dies |
| Died : | 09/18/1894 | Rafael N£¤ez, president (Colombia)/writer (La fonolgia Moderna), dies |
| Died : | 12/03/1894 | Robert Louis Stevenson, English writer (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies |
| Died : | 03/27/1894 | Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies |
| Special : | 04/05/1894 | 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn |
| Special : | 04/20/1894 | 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase |
| Special : | 03/03/1894 | 1st Greek-language publication in US begins, "NY Atlantis" |
| Special : | 06/17/1894 | 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont |
| Special : | 02/03/1894 | 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me |
| Special : | 01/27/1894 | 1st college basketball game, U of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11 |
| Special : | 10/29/1894 | 1st election of Hawaiian Republic |
| Special : | 12/25/1894 | 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, U of Chicago |
| Special : | 11/18/1894 | 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World) |
| Special : | 04/14/1894 | 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures) |
| Special : | 07/20/1894 | 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike |
| Special : | 03/24/1894 | 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA |
| Special : | 11/16/1894 | 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan |
| Special : | 11/19/1894 | A Borrelly discovers asteroid #394 Arduina |
| Special : | 01/10/1894 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #381 Myrrha |
| Special : | 03/07/1894 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #388 Charybdis |
| Special : | 03/08/1894 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #389 Industria |
| Special : | 11/30/1894 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #395 Delia |
| Special : | 12/01/1894 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #396 Aeolia |
| Special : | 12/19/1894 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #397 Vienna |
| Special : | 12/28/1894 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #398 Admete |
| Special : | 01/08/1894 | A Charlois discovers asteroids #379 Huenna & #380 Fiducia |
| Special : | 01/29/1894 | A Charlois discovers asteroids #382 Dodona & #383 Janina |
| Special : | 05/11/1894 | American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co |
| Special : | 06/25/1894 | American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike |
| Special : | 09/27/1894 | Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY |
| Special : | 05/28/1894 | Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern |
| Special : | 05/30/1894 | Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game |
| Special : | 10/01/1894 | Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska |
| Special : | 07/06/1894 | Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike |
| Special : | 01/08/1894 | Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire |
| Special : | 08/18/1894 | Congress creates Bureau of Immigration |
| Special : | 03/25/1894 | Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon, O for Wash |
| Special : | 11/17/1894 | Daily Racing Form founded |
| Special : | 08/02/1894 | Death duties 1st introduced in Britain |
| Special : | 06/24/1894 | Decision to begin modern Olympics every 4 years |
| Special : | 01/01/1894 | Denmark adopts Mid-European time |
| Special : | 07/04/1894 | Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH |
| Special : | 02/08/1894 | Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks |
| Special : | 02/11/1894 | F Courty discovers asteroid #384 Burdigala |
| Special : | 03/05/1894 | F Courty discovers asteroid #387 Aquitania |
| Special : | 09/02/1894 | Fire destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die |
| Special : | 05/14/1894 | Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings |
| Special : | 05/16/1894 | Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings |
| Special : | 03/24/1894 | G Bigourdan discovers asteroid #390 Alma |
| Special : | 01/23/1894 | G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 min |
| Special : | 07/02/1894 | Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers |
| Special : | 03/04/1894 | Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed |
| Special : | 11/25/1894 | Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis |
| Special : | 01/25/1894 | HW boxing champ James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell |
| Special : | 03/13/1894 | J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate |
| Special : | 09/15/1894 | Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang |
| Special : | 06/30/1894 | Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid |
| Special : | 06/28/1894 | Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday |
| Special : | 11/01/1894 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #391 Ingeborg |
| Special : | 11/04/1894 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #392 Wilhelmina & #393 Lampetia |
| Special : | 03/01/1894 | M Wolf discovers asteroids #385 Ilmatar & #386 Siegena |
| Special : | 01/01/1894 | Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic |
| Special : | 07/16/1894 | Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners |
| Special : | 01/27/1894 | Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park |
| Special : | 03/22/1894 | Montreal AAA beats Ottawa Capitals 3-2 & wins the 1st Stanley Cup |
| Special : | 03/08/1894 | NY passes 1st state dog license law |
| Special : | 02/24/1894 | Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of) |
| Special : | 10/17/1894 | Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man |
| Special : | 08/31/1894 | Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases |
| Special : | 04/24/1894 | Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers |
| Special : | 06/15/1894 | Phillies beat Cincinatti Reds, 21-8 |
| Special : | 08/17/1894 | Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4 |
| Special : | 01/30/1894 | Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit |
| Special : | 07/04/1894 | Republic of Hawaii established |
| Special : | 01/13/1894 | Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops |
| Special : | 03/05/1894 | Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US |
| Special : | 04/05/1894 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Empty House" (BG) |
| Special : | 11/14/1894 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Golden Pince-Nez" (BG) |
| Special : | 07/16/1894 | Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England |
| Special : | 01/30/1894 | US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham |
| Special : | 11/20/1894 | US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua |
| Special : | 02/02/1894 | US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island |
| Special : | 11/01/1894 | Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris |
| Special : | 02/14/1894 | Venus is both a morning star & evening star |
| Special : | 08/02/1894 | Women suffrage approved |
| Special : | 06/21/1894 | Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company |
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