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Born :04/01/1895Alberta Hunter, blues singer
Born :03/03/1895Alex[ander] Nearmolen, composer
Born :10/15/1895Alfred Neumann, German writer
Born :11/25/1895Anastas I Mikoyan, Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet
Born :09/24/1895Andr‚ Cournand, physician
Born :12/03/1895Anna Freud, Austrian/English psychoanalytist/daughter of Sigmund F
Born :02/04/1895Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, historian (Erflaters)
Born :04/19/1895Anton F Pieck, painter/cartoonist/enterperneur
Born :04/04/1895Arthur Murray, NYC, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
Born :03/24/1895Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party)
Born :06/05/1895August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Coriolanus)
Born :08/01/1895Benjamin E Mays, SC, black educator (Morehouse, Howard University)
Born :10/02/1895Bud Abbott, Asbury Pk NJ, comedian (Abbott & Costello)
Born :10/04/1895Buster [Joseph F] Keaton, actor (Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr)
Born :07/10/1895Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer (Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969)
Born :10/06/1895Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries)
Born :09/16/1895Charles W Bidwill Sr, Chicago, NFL hall of famer (Chicago Cardinals)
Born :07/14/1895Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Mo, singer (54th Street Revue)
Born :01/02/1895Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, UN)
Born :02/25/1895DeBenneville "Bert" Bell, PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles)
Born :06/04/1895Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations (1925-32)
Born :10/17/1895Doris Humphrey, US, dancer/choreographer
Born :05/03/1895Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
Born :05/08/1895Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
Born :11/16/1895Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzjoebin], Russ poet/journalist (South-West)
Born :09/26/1895Fay Holden, Birmingham England, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films)
Born :07/14/1895Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment)
Born :03/14/1895French Ganshof, Belgian historian
Born :05/08/1895Fulton J Sheen, El Paso Ill, bishop (Life is Worth Living)
Born :03/01/1895G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of famer (elected 1958)
Born :02/18/1895George "Gipper" Gipp, Notre Dame football star
Born :02/06/1895George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore, baseball great (Yankees)
Born :09/27/1895George Raft, NYC, actor (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot)
Born :02/02/1895George S Halas, [Papa Bear], end/coach (Bears), co-founder NFL
Born :12/14/1895George VI, king of England (1936-52)
Born :02/28/1895Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
Born :02/04/1895Hanns [Johann] Rauter, German SS-lt-general/SS police chief in Neth
Born :01/24/1895Hans Fischb”ck, Austria, financed Netherlands (1940-42)
Born :07/22/1895Hans Rosbaud, Graz Austria, conductor (Tonhalle Orch Zrich)
Born :04/15/1895Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Oly-bronze-1920)
Born :11/08/1895Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer
Born :06/10/1895Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)
Born :11/15/1895Ina Claire, actress (Claudia, Ninotchka, Rebound)
Born :01/01/1895J Edgar Hoover, Mr FBI
Born :06/24/1895Jack Dempsey, [Manassa Mauler], heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26)
Born :03/30/1895Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant)
Born :01/05/1895Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest
Born :05/22/1895Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, spiritual philosopher (Songs of Life)
Born :10/27/1895John Boles, US singer/actor (Babes in Baghdad, Virgin Lips)
Born :02/01/1895John Ford, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
Born :09/18/1895John G Diefenbaker, Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian PM (C) (1957-63)
Born :09/17/1895John George Diefenbaker, PM Canada
Born :03/31/1895John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker (Sec of War 1941-45, pres Chase Man)
Born :11/10/1895John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer (Northrop Air)
Born :09/29/1895Joseph Banks Rhine, Penn, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception)
Born :01/27/1895Joseph Rosenstock, Cracow Poland, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1936-41)
Born :01/24/1895Joseph Schildkraut, Austria, actor (Idiot's Delight)
Born :03/22/1895Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna Aus, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents)
Born :05/08/1895Jos‚ G¢mez, [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter
Born :11/28/1895Jos‚ Iturbi, Valencia Spain, pianist (Peque¤a danza Espa¤ola)
Born :10/08/1895Juan Per¢n, Argentine Pres (1946-55, 1973-74)
Born :06/03/1895Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance)
Born :07/21/1895Ken Maynard, US, cowboy/actor/producer (Bigfoot)
Born :02/08/1895King Vidor, director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas)
Born :10/08/1895King Zog I, of Albania (1928-1939)
Born :07/12/1895Kirsten Flagstead, Norse soprano (Wagner)
Born :10/13/1895Kurt Schumacher, German politicial chairman (SPD)
Born :10/03/1895Kurt Schumacher, co-founder/president Wes -German SDP
Born :08/08/1895Law Pendleton, US, wrestler/actor (Laughing Lady)
Born :09/28/1895Lawton Whitey Witt, outfielder (NY Yankees, 1922-25)
Born :05/01/1895Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)
Born :10/25/1895Levi Eshkol, [Sjkolnik], Israeli PM (MWP) (1963-69)
Born :05/14/1895Lew Lehr, Phila, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One)
Born :10/01/1895Liaquat Al Khan, attorney/premier of Pakistan (1947-51)
Born :10/10/1895Lin Y-t'ang, China, writer (My Country & My People)
Born :02/19/1895Louis Calhern, NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle)
Born :06/14/1895Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees)
Born :10/19/1895Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer
Born :06/17/1895Louise Fazenda, US, actress/com‚dienne (Almost an actress)
Born :05/09/1895Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon)
Born :08/16/1895Lucien Littlefield, San Antonia Tx, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie)
Born :07/10/1895Maarten P Free, lawyer/criminologist/member High Council
Born :04/09/1895Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)
Born :02/28/1895Marcel Pagnol, French playwright
Born :01/07/1895Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist
Born :04/03/1895Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer
Born :07/04/1895Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator
Born :03/03/1895Matthew B Ridgway, US gen (WW II/China/Nicaragua/Korea/NATO)
Born :03/03/1895Matthew Ridgway, general (Normandy, Korea)
Born :02/14/1895Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist (Studies in prejudice)
Born :11/16/1895Michael Arlen, Armenia, English author (An American Verdict)
Born :10/08/1895Milk I, [Ahmed Zogu], premier/president/king of Angolia
Born :07/10/1895Nahum Goldmann, Switz, pres Zionist World Organization
Born :01/01/1895Nathaniel Shilkret, NYC, conductor
Born :02/03/1895Nick Kenny, Astoria NYC, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show)
Born :09/04/1895Nigel Bruce, British/US actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes)
Born :06/11/1895Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58)
Born :12/04/1895Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag)
Born :04/13/1895Olof R J„ndel, Swedish poet
Born :07/12/1895Oscar Hammerstein II, NYC, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
Born :11/19/1895Paul Hindemith, German composer
Born :11/16/1895Paul Hindemith, Hanau Germany, composer (Tutti F„ntchen)
Born :09/22/1895Paul Muni, actor (Acad Award 1936-Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez)
Born :08/22/1895Paul White, Bangor Maine, composer (Adante & Rondo for Cello)
Born :05/02/1895Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield Ct, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads)
Born :07/12/1895R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)
Born :03/03/1895Ragnar Frisch, Norway, economist (1st Nobel prize in economy-1969)
Born :05/09/1895Richard Barthelmess, US, actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose)
Born :10/04/1895Richard Sorge, German spy for USSR in Tokyo (WW II)
Born :08/13/1895Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row)
Born :07/24/1895Robert Graves, England, poet/historical novelist (I, Claudius)
Born :04/26/1895Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy Fhrer, only prisoner at Spandau
Born :05/06/1895Rudolph Valentino, sheik/actor (Eagle)
Born :09/13/1895Ruth McDevitt, Coldwater Mich, actress (Jo-All in the Family)
Born :05/24/1895Samuel I Newhouse, US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour)
Born :02/18/1895Semjon Timosjenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II)
Born :03/17/1895Shemp Howard, comic actor (3 Stooges, Bank Dick) [or 1891]
Born :03/24/1895Sid Saylor, Chicago Ill, actor (Wally-Waterfront)
Born :07/13/1895Sidney Blackmer, US actor (Ted Roosevelt in 12 movies)
Born :03/28/1895Spencer W Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church
Born :06/16/1895Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
Born :12/20/1895Susanne Langer, US, philosopher/educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
Born :10/13/1895Vera, [A Veronica] Bondam, actress
Born :02/03/1895Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, politician (found APRA party in Peru)
Born :02/22/1895V¡ctor Ra£l Haya de la Torre, founder of Peruvian Aprista Party
Born :10/05/1895Walter Bedell Smith, US general (WW II)/head of CIA (1950-52)
Born :11/05/1895Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer
Born :12/02/1895Warren William, [Krech], US, actor (C‘sar in Cleopatra)
Born :11/25/1895Wilhelm Kempff, Juterbog Germany, pianist (Unterdem Zimbelstern)
Born :06/05/1895William Boyd, Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy)
Born :05/11/1895William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer (Afro-American)
Born :11/29/1895William V.S. Tubman, (Whig), 17th Liberian president (1943-70)
Born :05/03/1895Zoltan Korda, Hong Kong/England, director (Jungle Book)
Born :03/03/1895gen. Matthew Ridgway: Normandi‰/Korea




Died :05/25/1895Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish lawyer/Justice, dies
Died :09/17/1895Auguste Toulet, Belgian balloonist, dies
Died :08/13/1895Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies
Died :11/29/1895Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austria premier (1868..93), dies at 62
Died :02/20/1895Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 78
Died :08/05/1895Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies
Died :04/19/1895George Scharf, critic, dies
Died :03/02/1895Ismail Pasja, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
Died :05/19/1895Jos‚ J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies
Died :04/23/1895Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, physiologist, dies
Died :09/29/1895Louis Pasteur, scientist (Pasteurization) dies
Died :12/25/1895Raul d'avila Pompeia, Brazilians writer (Liederen without metre), dies
Died :03/31/1895Vardis A Fisher, US writer (Darkness & Deep), dies




Special :11/05/18951st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
Special :09/21/18951st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company
Special :06/11/18951st auto race
Special :06/20/18951st female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
Special :02/09/18951st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3)
Special :08/31/18951st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
Special :09/03/18951st pro football game played (Latrobe, Penn)
Special :02/04/18951st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
Special :09/24/18951st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
Special :11/13/18951st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
Special :03/18/1895200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia
Special :02/15/189523 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
Special :12/02/189554th Congress (1895-97) convenes
Special :03/15/1895A Charlois discovers asteroid #400 Ducrosa
Special :03/21/1895A Charlois discovers asteroid #402 Chloe
Special :05/18/1895A Charlois discovers asteroid #403 Cyane
Special :06/20/1895A Charlois discovers asteroid #404 Arsinoe
Special :07/23/1895A Charlois discovers asteroid #405 Thia
Special :08/22/1895A Charlois discovers asteroid #406 Erna
Special :12/09/1895A Charlois discovers asteroid #409 Aspasia
Special :11/27/1895Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
Special :11/28/1895America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH
Special :09/09/1895American Bowling Congress formed (NYC)
Special :04/11/1895Anaheim completes it's new electric light system
Special :12/17/1895Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC
Special :11/11/1895Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
Special :09/18/1895Booker T Washington delivera "Atlanta Compromise" address
Special :05/08/1895China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
Special :02/20/1895Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
Special :02/24/1895Cuban war of independence begins
Special :09/18/1895D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor
Special :09/12/1895Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (Engld) in 10th America's Cup
Special :09/30/1895France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
Special :12/17/1895George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
Special :09/05/1895George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC
Special :11/26/1895Hawaiian Sugar Planters Assn forms
Special :05/24/1895Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight
Special :10/04/1895Horace Rawlins wins 1st US Open golf tournament (Newport RI)
Special :04/15/1895Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
Special :04/24/1895Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
Special :01/31/1895Jos‚ Mart¡ & others leave NYC for invasion of Spanish Cuba
Special :07/04/1895Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
Special :03/26/1895King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
Special :03/19/1895Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
Special :02/23/1895M Wolf discovers asteroid #399 Persephone
Special :03/16/1895M Wolf discovers asteroid #401 Ottilia
Special :10/13/1895M Wolf discovers asteroid #407 Arachn & #408 Fama
Special :02/26/1895Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine
Special :03/09/1895Montreal AAA beat Queens Univ (Kingston Ont) for the Stanley Cup
Special :02/13/1895Moving picture projector patented
Special :02/21/1895NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
Special :01/22/1895National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati
Special :06/20/1895Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
Special :01/01/1895Norway adopts Mid-European time
Special :02/14/1895Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest" opens in London
Special :03/13/1895Spanish warship Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
Special :04/05/1895Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Students" (BG)
Special :07/03/1895Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)
Special :11/21/1895Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)
Special :08/20/1895Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
Special :04/13/1895Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" (BG)
Special :01/15/1895Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premiers, St Petersburg (1/27 NS)
Special :04/17/1895Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
Special :11/05/1895US state Utah accepts female suffrage
Special :02/09/1895Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
Special :11/08/1895Wilhelm R”ntgen discovers x-rays
Special :02/23/1895William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
Special :04/05/1895Writer Oscar Wylde is arrested
Special :06/13/1895mile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)

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