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1877  The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.   

1879  F W Woolworth opens inaugural store (failed almost immediately).   

1879  F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)   

1879  Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide).   

1882  Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales).   

1883  Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement)   

1884  Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa   

1884  Alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso, dies   

1887  Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.   

1887  Adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67.   

1891  Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music).   

1892  Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature and Destiny of Man).   

1893  The inaugural Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition).   

1893  1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition).   

1893  Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University   

1894  Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company.   

1895  British Roseberry govt falls.   

1898  Guam is recorded as becoming a territory of US   

1899  Pavel Haas, composer.   

1900  Arthur MacArthur, U.S. military governor in the Philippines, grants an amnesty to Filipino rebels   

1900  Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers.   

1900  Gunnar Ek, composer.   

1900  Polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69.   

1902  Wilhelm Maler, composer   

1903  Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)   

1903  Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times).   

1904  Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913).   

1905  Jean-Paul Sartre, French playwright is born.   

1905  Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France).   

1906  M Wolf discovers asteroid #601 Nerthus.   

1906  Luis Maria Millet, composer.   

1907  13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA.   

1908  Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64   

1909  Kurt Schwaen, composer.   

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1002  Leo ix: [bruno count of egesheim & dagsburg], pope (1049-54)   

1002  Pope leo ix: Pope leo ix (d. 1054)   

1226  King boleslaus v of poland: King boleslaus v of poland (d. 1279)   

1528  Maria of spain: Holy roman empire empress (1603)   

1577  Giovanni del turco: Composer   

1596  Michael fjodorovitsj: Tsar of russia (1613-45)/1st romanov   

1639  Increase mather: New england puritan minister   

1640  Abraham mignon: Still life painter   

0524  Chlodomir: King of the france to orleans (511-24),   

1205  Enrico dandolo: Doge of venice (b. 1107)   

1208  Death of Philips van zwaben hohenstaufen: Roman-german king,   

1305  King wenceslaus ii of bohemia and poland: King wenceslaus ii of bohemia and poland (b. 1271)   

1377  Death of Edward iii: King of england (1327-77),   

1421  Death of Jean le maingre: Marshal of france (b. 1366)   

1527  Niccolo machiavelli: Florentine statesman/author,   

1529  John skelton: English poet,