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1895  Fred Essler, Austria, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga Trunk)   

1896  Karl Reinthaler, composer, dies at 73   

1898  Neville Pearson, English publisher.   

1899  -1ºF (-18ºC) New Orleans LA   

1899  -2ºF (-19ºC) Tallahassee FL (state record).   

1899  -16°F (-27°C), Minden Louisiana (state record)   

1901  Georges Simenon, Belgian novelist is born.   

1902  Blair Moody, New Haven Ct, (Sen-Mich)   

1903  Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black).   

1905  -29ºF (-34ºC) Pond AR (state record).   

1905  -40ºF (-40ºC) Lebanon KS (state record).   

1905  -40ºF (-40ºC) Warsaw MO (state record)   

1905  -29°F (-34°C) Pond, Arkansas (state record)   

1907  English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested.   

1907  Portage la Prairie Manitoba is incorporated as a city.   

1907  Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer, dies at 59.   

1908  Gerald Strang, Claresholm Canada, composer.   

1910  William B Shockley, London, US physicist (Nobel 1956), racist.   

1911  Jean Muir Fullarton, actress   

1912  England regains cricket's Ashes   

1912  French J Van den Brande, Flemish actor   

1913  Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant   

1914  American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers-ASCAP forms in New York NY.   

1914  ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, is founded in New York City   

1914  American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC   

1914  Earl Cadogan, British large landowner (Military Cross)   

1915  Lyle Betther, Phila, actor (Harry-Grand Jury, Lone Ranger).   

1916  James Griffith, LA Calif, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)   

1917  Polly Rose, actress (Myrtle-Love That Jill)   

1917  Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48   

1918  Helen Stephens, Fulton Mo, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1936)   

1919  Eddie Robinson, winningest college football coach (Grambling).   

1920  League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland   

1920  National Negro Baseball League organized   

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1440  Hartmann schedel: German physician/humanist/historian   

1457  Mary of burgundy: Daughter of charles the bold and wife of maximilian i, holy roman emperor   

1480  Girolamo aleandro: Italian catholic cardinal   

1599  Alexander vii: [fabio chigi], siena italy, pope (1655-67)   

1610  Jean de la badie: French divine, founder of lagardists   

1622  Adam pijnacker: Landscape painter/etcher, baptized   

1658  Jan b wellekens: Dutch poet/painter   

1660  Johann sigismund kusser: Composer   

0858  Death of Kenneth i of scotland: Kenneth i of scotland   

1130  Honorius ii: [lamberto], pope (1124-30),   

1141  B�la ii of hungary: B�la ii of hungary (b. 1110)   

1199  Death of Stefanus nemanja (symeon): Monk,   

1219  Minamoto no sanetomo: Japanese shogun (b. 1192)   

1237  Death of Jordanus of saxon: 2nd general of dominicans, drowns   

1315  Jean i of chalon-arlay: Mayor of neuchôtel,   

1332  Andronicus ii paleologus: Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk,