Page 8: Historical Events In February - 01

1910  Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44.   

1913  Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot   

1914  Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] Censors appointed.   

1914  Tanganyika Railway opens.   

1914  NY Giants and Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt   

1915  Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted.   

1916  SS Empress Queen, stranded in fog off Bembridge, Isle of Wight, where she later broke up. Although there were 1300 troops on board all were got off.   

1916  Gordon Hobday, Lord Lieutenant (Nottinghamshire).   

1916  Anton Simon, composer, dies at 65.   

1917  Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war   

1918  In this year, Russia formally adopts Gregorian calendar (is recorded as becoming Feb 14)   

1918  The French ship LaDive is torpedoed in the Mediterranean   

1918  Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest.   

1918  Maurice Laing, life president (John Laing)   

1919  Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert.   

1920  Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police.   

1920  The inaugural commercial armored car introduced (St Paul MN)   

1920  1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn).   

1920  Kenneth Bond, former vice-chairman.   

1921  Peter Sallis, actor (Tast the Blood of Dracula).   

1922  Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski, professor of Cushtic Languages   

1922  William Desmond Taylor, director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49   

1923  Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel.   

1923  Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini   

1924  Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens   

1924  New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR.   

1925  1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin.   

1926  Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR is recorded as becoming Kirghiz ASSR   

1926  Land at Broadway and Wall Street sold at a record $7 per square inch   

1929  1st clean and jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs.   

1929  August Otto Halm, composer, dies at 59   

1930  Arnold Schönbergs opera, Von heute auf Morgen premieres in Frankfurt.   

1931  Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician is born.   

1932  Bradman makes 299 vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th.   

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1261  Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (d. 1326) was born on this day in history.   

1459  Conrad Celtes, German scholar (d. 1508) was born on this day in history.   

1462  Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (d. 1516) was born on February - 01.   

1552  Edward Coke, Mileham Norfolk, jurist/politician (defended common law) was born on this day in history.   

1603  On this day in history birth of michael Trumper, composer   

1605  Isaac Aboab de Fonseca, Portuguese/Neth rabbi/mystic was born on February - 01.   

1633  Gabriel Schutz, composer was born on February - 01.   

1635  On this day in history birth of marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689)   

0656  Sigebert III, king of Austrasia, dies at about 25 on February - 01.   

1204  On February - 01 death of alexius IV Angelus, regent of Byzantium (1203-04), murdered   

1248  Hendrik II, duke of Brabant (1235-48), dies on this day in history.   

1294  Louis II, the Stern, ruler of Upper-Bayern, dies on February - 01.   

1328  On February - 01 charles IV, the Handsome, King of France (1322-28), dies   

1502  Olivier de la Marche, Flemish writer/poet/governor, dies on February - 01.   

1542  On this day in history death of girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1480)   

1563  Death of Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia (died of fever) on this day in history.