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1876  Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)   

1876  Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again).   

1877  Charles Bannerman completes inaugural Test cricket century, 165 vs England.   

1877  Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 v Eng   

1878  Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi   

1878  William Banting, English undertaker, dies   

1881  Barnum and Bailey Circus debuts   

1881  Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at 42   

1882  US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross.   

1884  Harrison Ford, Kansas City, Missouri, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires, Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear).   

1885  Giacomo Benvenuti, composer.   

1887  Emanuel Kania, composer, dies at 59.   

1892  Caesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros).   

1893  Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)   

1894  Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs," premieres in Paris   

1896  Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"   

1896  Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)   

1897  Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)   

1898  Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23.   

1900  Discovery of the ancient city of Knossos on the island of Crete.   

1900  Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse, embarks troops for South Africa; the regiment consists of 537 mounted troops recruited in Manitoba, BC and the NWT.   

1900  Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus   

1900  AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in.   

1902  Lucie Rie, potter.   

1903  Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip   

1903  Roy Bean, American jurist   

1904  Clive Morton, London England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker)   

1906  Kagi, Formosa a 7.1 earthquake caused 1300 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.   

1906  Francisco Ayala, writer.   

1907  inaugural inaugural-class cricket game between New South Wales and Western Australia   

1907  1st 1st-class cricket game between NSW and Western Australia.   

1908  Robert Rossen director/writer (Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo)   

1909  George Thorndike Angell, lawyer (ASPCA), dies at 85.   

1910  Barney Oldfield uses a Benz to break the existing records at Daytona Beach Road Course (131.25mph)   

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1338  Thomas de beauchamp: 12th earl of warwick   

1445  Johann geiler von kaisersberg: Swiss-born preacher   

1473  Henry iv the pious: Duke of saxony   

1581  Pieter corneliszoon hooft: Dutch historian and writer   

1585  Gerbrant a bredero: Holland, poet/playwright (klucht van de koe)   

1609  Michael franck: Composer   

1631  René le bossu: French critic   

1634  Contessa marie madeleine la fayette: Novelist   

0455  Valentinian iii: Roman emperor (b. 419)   

1021  Death of Heribert of cologne: Archbishop of cologne and chancellor of emperor otto iii   

1037  Robert i: Archbishop of rouen   

1072  Adalbert: Archbishop of bremen-hamburg,   

1322  Humphrey de bohun: 4th earl of hereford, english soldier (b. 1276)   

1410  John beaufort: 1st earl of somerset (b. 1373)   

1485  Death of Anne neville: Queen of richard iii of england (b. 1456)   

1536  Death of Ibrahim pasha: Grand-visier of osmaanse rich, murdered at about 45