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1908  Sidney Gilliat, producer   

1909  Harold Beeley, British diplomat   

1910  The Boy Scouts of America is founded   

1910  Albert Fuchs, composer, dies at 51.   

1912  Fram reaches latitude 78º 41' S, farthest south ever by ship   

1912  Fram reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship.   

1913  inaugural avant-garde art show in America opens in New York NY.   

1913  1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC   

1916  NY Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37500.   

1916  Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer, dies at 73.   

1917  San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated.   

1917  SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated.   

1917  Charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at 60.   

1918  Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania adopt the Gregorian calendar   

1918  inaugural WWI US army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland   

1918  1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland   

1919  1700 Jews are murdered in the Ukrainian town of Proskoruv by followers of Simon Petlura, Ukrainian Nationalist leader.   

1919  American Legion organizes in Paris   

1919  Pieter K Pel, Dutch internist (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at 66   

1921  Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England, Australian Test Cricket rec.   

1921  Hans Haym, composer, dies at 60.   

1922  Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex   

1922  Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist, dies at 36.   

1923  Josephine B Willson Bruce, US black theorist, dies at 69.   

1924  Lionel Monckton, English composer (Country Girl), dies at 62.   

1926  Contract air mail service begins in US   

1926  Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St NYC.   

1928  Hubert H Asquith, premier Great-Britain (1908-16), dies at 75   

1929  St Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago).   

1930  Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes   

1931  inaugural Dracula movie released   

1931  Claire Bloom, English actress is born   

1931  1st Dracula movie released   

1932  3rd Winter Olympics games close at Lake Placid NY.   

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1368  Sigismund: Nornberg germany, holy roman emperor (1410-37)   

1458  Ivan the young: Ruler of tver   

1471  Piero di lorenzo de' medici: Ruler of florence   

1483  Babur: Founder of mughal dynasty in india (1526-30   

1497  Philipp melanchthon: German protestant   

1519  Pedro menendez de aviles: Explorer (found st augustine florida)   

1524  Charles de guise: Archbishop/cardinal of reims   

1557  Alfonso fontanelli: Composer   

1043  Death of Gisela: Wife of rc-german emperor conrad ii the salier,   

1145  Death of Lucius ii: [gherardo caccianemici], italian pope (1144-45),   

1152  Konrad iii: Roman-german king (1138-1152),   

1503  Death of Henry deane: Archbishop of canterbury (1501-03),   

1568  Death of Hendrik van brederode: Dutch noble (compromise of nobles),   

1580  Cunerus petri: Dutch theologist/bishop of leeuwarden,   

1597  Pieter j kies: Dutch mayor of haarlem (1572-73),   

1600  Death of Jose the acosta: Spanish missionary (peru),