Page 6: Historical Events In August - 01

1910  Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (pioneer Indian opening bowler in Tests)   

1911  Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point.   

1911  Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician.   

1911  Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das, grosse Duden Lexicon), dies   

1912  Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist   

1913  Jerome Moross, Brooklyn NY, composer (Frankie and Johnny)   

1914  Germany declares war on Russia in WW I   

1914  Germany declares war on the Soviet Union, Italy declares itself neutral.   

1914  British fleet reaches Scapa Flow.   

1914  Jack Delano, composer   

1915  Ronald MacDonald, British major-general.   

1916  Hawaii National Park established.   

1916  Hawaii National Park forms.   

1916  Viscount Hanworth, barrister   

1916  Claude Newberry, S Afr cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies.   

1917  Frank Little, IWW organizer is lynched in Butte, Montana   

1917  Start of Third Battle of Ypres - Australian soldiers in action at Menin Road, Glencorse Wood, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde Ridge and Passchendaele.   

1917  Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT   

1917  Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert.   

1918  British troops enter Vladivostok.   

1918  Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist.   

1919  Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam   

1919  Stanley Middleton, novelist   

1920  Papendrecht soccer team forms.   

1920  Jeffrey Segal, actor (Traitors)/playwright.   

1920  Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies   

1921  Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert.   

1922  Hendrikus Colijn is recorded as becoming political editor-in-chief of The Standard.   

1922  Arthur Hill, Saskatchewan Canada, actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter)   

1922  Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer, dies at 72.   

1923  Pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel, SF.   

1925  Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies   

1925  John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61.   

1926  Battles between Druzen and French in Damascus.   

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1313  On this day in history birth of emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)   

1322  On this day in history birth of peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian   

1377  On August - 01 birth of emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)   

1495  Jan Scorel, Dutch painter/architect was born on this day in history.   

1520  On August - 01 birth of sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72)   

1545  Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622) was born on this day in history.   

1555  On this day in history birth of edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)   

1579  On August - 01 birth of luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)   

0527  Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies on August - 01.   

1137  On August - 01 louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)   

1190  On August - 01 floris III, Count of Holland, dies   

1227  Death of Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179) on this day in history.   

1402  Death of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341) on August - 01.   

1457  On August - 01 laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50   

1464  Death of Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386) on this day in history.   

1541  On August - 01 death of simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)