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1899 Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall). 
1902 Battle at Yzer Spruit Boer General De la Rey beats British.
1903 Cuba agrees to allow the U.S. to operate a naval base at Guantanamo Bay
1903 US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
1905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
1905 E Boyland, biochemist
1906 Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
1907 Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77.
1908 Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66
1909 The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded
1909 August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries).
1910 Lord Hazlerigg
1911 Konrad Lechner, composer
1912 Julius Kowalski, composer
1913 Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist.
1914 Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks," premieres in New York NY.
1914 Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks," premieres in NYC.
1914 David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator.
1914 Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
1915 Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist.
1916 Gene Mitchell, museum director
1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WWI exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1917 Russian revolution breaks out.
1917 William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist (superconductivity)
1918 Estonia declares independence from Russia.
1919 Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist
1919 Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41.
1920 Peace treaty gives Estonia independence.
1920 NSDAP begins at Hofbrauhaus Munich
1920 Frank Rogers, CEO (NPA Telegraph)
1921 The inaugural transcontinental flight in 24 hours flying time arrives Florida
1921 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives Florida.
1921 Abe Vigoda, NYC, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
1922 Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG in Test for India 1948)
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