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1894  Debussy's ballet "L'aprés-midi d'un faune," premieres in Paris   

1894  Arthur Gilligan, cricketer (England captain in 1920's)   

1896  Alberto Hemsi, composer   

1897  Julien Carette, Paris France, actor (Sylvia and the Phantom)   

1899  Fieldmarshal Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa   

1901  Gene Sarazen, golfer (PGA 1922, 23, 33)   

1903  Fredi [Fredericka] Carolyn Washington, actress (Black and Tan)   

1905  Arn Bjornsson, composer   

1906  Ross Lee Finney, Wells Minnesota, composer (Landscapes Remembered).   

1907  inaugural all-steel passenger railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa   

1907  1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa   

1907  Don McNeill, Galena Ill, host (Don McNeill TV Club)   

1908  Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer (Life Magazine).   

1908  Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72.   

1909  Albert is recorded as becoming king of Belgium   

1909  Albert is recorded as becoming king of Belgians.   

1909  Barney Ross, NYC, Welterweight Boxing Champ (1934).   

1911  The opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)   

1911  Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire," premieres in Munich   

1911  James Gregory, Bronx NYC, actor (My Favorite Martian, Barney Miller)   

1911  Karl L Hoschna, composer, dies at 34.   

1912  1st "Keystone Kops" film, titled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy".   

1913  President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law.   

1913  Hans Henkemans, composer.   

1913  James Middleton, cricketer (24 wkt of lefty pace S Af 1895-1903), dies   

1914  World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt   

1914  Dezider Kardos, composer.   

1915  J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie," premieres in NYC   

1915  Roland Leighton, dies at 20   

1916  World War I: Battle of Magdhaba.   

1916  Dino Risi, Italian film director and screenwriter   

1917  3 British warships come close to Holland   

1918  Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (SPD, 1974- )   

1919  inaugural hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched.   

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1173  Louis i: Duke of bavaria   

1174  Louis i: Duke of wittelsbach   

1513  Thomas smith: English diplomat and scholar   

1537  King john iii of sweden: King john iii of sweden (d. 1592)   

1544  Anna: Duchess of saxson/wife of prince willem of orange (1561-71)   

1548  Pieter c bockenberg: Historian (annales hollandiae et zeelandiae)   

1582  Severo bonini: Composer   

1597  Martin opitz: Germany, poet "father of modern german poetry"   

0558  Childebert: King of france (511-58),   

0679  Death of Dagobert ii: King of austrasia (676-679), murdered   

0910  Death of Naum of preslav: Bulgarian scholar   

0913  Conrad of franconia: Conrad of franconia   

0918  Conrad i: East frankish/german king (911-18),   

1116  Death of Ivo van chartres: French canonist/bishop of chartres/saint,   

1230  Berengaria of navarre: Queen of richard i of england   

1236  Death of Philippus cancellarius: French theologist/poet (summa cum laude),