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Tuesday, 03 February 2026
1891 Clarrie Grimmett, cricketer (in Dunedin Great Australian leg-spinner) 
1892 Rebecca West, [Cicely Isabel Fairfield], English author.
1893 Bert Bertram, actor (How to Steal a Million)
1894 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, U of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, CA in football.
1895 Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding-school), dies at 32.
1896 "Stars and Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa.
1898 Theo Swagemakers, Dutch portrait painter
1899 Humphrey Bogart, American actor is born.
1899 Farmers send/guide belegerd Ladysmith Kerstpudding/desire in grenade.
1899 Frank Fergusson, actor (My Friend Flicka, Peyton Place)
1900 Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany
1900 Barton Maclane, Columbia SC, actor (Gen Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie).
1901 Battle at Tweefontein Orange-Free state: Boers surprise attack Brits.
1901 Alice C, English duchess of Gloucester/aunt of Elizabeth II
1902 Clyde Fitch' "Girl with Green Eyes," premieres in NYC
1902 Barton MacLane, SC, actor (Geisha Boy, Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie).
1903 Antiochos Evanghelatos, composer
1904 Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist (molecular structure-Nobel 1971)
1904 Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer, dies at 61.
1905 V Herbert/H Blossoms musical "Mlle Modiste," premieres in NYC
1906 Clark M Clifford, US Secretary of Defense (1968-69)
1907 Cab[ell] Calloway, Rochester, bandleader (Minnie the Moocha, Jazzball).
1908 Frank Ferguson, Calif, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal)
1911 Edward Knoblock's "Kismet," premieres in NYC
1914 Just after midnight on Christmas morning, the German troops along the Eastern and Western fronts cease firing their guns and artillery, and start singing Christmas carols and playing brass musical instruments; at inaugural light, many German soldiers emerge from their trenches and cross No Man's Land, calling out Merry Christmas in English and French; at inaugural the Allied soldiers suspect a trick, but soon they are shaking hands with the Boche; swapping cigarettes and plum pudding, and even playing soccer; the Christmas Truce lasts a few days, then it is back to the bloody conflict of World War I; there are no more Christmas Truces.
1914 SS Therese Heymann. This Ropner ship left the Tyne and was posted missing thereafter. No information about her fate is known but she may have been mined off Filey, Yorkshire as was the fate of many other vessels
1914 Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits and Germans).
1915 Irving Berlin and Harry B Smith's musical premieres in NYC.
1917 "Why Marry," 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in NYC
1921 Hans Huber, composer, dies at 69
1922 -Dec 26] Lenin dictates his "Political testament".
1922 Alphonse Goovaerts, composer, dies at 75
1923 Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St NYC
1925 Sergei Jessenin, writer, dies at 30
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