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1918  US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Nathaniel Niles   

1918  D Arendo, [Arend Honhoff], Dutch pianist/composer (Eleonora)   

1918  US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Rosemary Beresford.   

1919  Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day and minimum wages.   

1919  Nat King Cole, Popular American singer and pianist is born   

1919  Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day and minimum wages   

1919  Hank Sauer, baseball player (NL MVP 1952)   

1920  John La Montaine, Oak Park Ill, composer (Pulitzer 1959).   

1921  Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's inaugural birth control clinic (London).   

1921  Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics   

1921  Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)   

1921  Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)   

1921  Mick Harvey, cricketer (in Newcastle Brother of Neil Test umpire).   

1922  Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail).   

1923  Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman (Trades Union Congress)   

1924  Netherlands and USSR begin talks over USSR recognition.   

1924  Sweden and USSR exchange diplomats   

1924  Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in NYC.   

1924  Stephen Dodgson, composer   

1925  G M Hughes, British zoologist   

1926  Dutch Calvinists oust Reverend J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3.   

1926  Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations   

1926  Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3   

1926  Siegfried Lenz, German writer (Ein Kriegsende).   

1927  US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty   

1927  US govt doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty.   

1927  Kenneth S Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist.   

1927  James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83.   

1928  Edino Krieger, composer   

1929  General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel   

1929  Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid.   

1931  In an attempt to lift the state from the hard times of the Great Depression, the Nevada state legislature votes to legalize gamblin   

1931  Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee.   

1932  German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter   

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1473  James iv: King of scotland (1488-1513)   

1578  Francesco albana: Ital painter (mary's ascension)   

1628  Daniel van papenbroeck: [papebrochius], flemish historian   

1664  Georg osterreich: Composer   

1675  Petrus laurentius wockenfuss: Composer   

1676  Thomas boston: Scottish church leader   

1685  Jean-marc nattier: French portrait painter   

1725  Lachlan mcintosh: Scottish-born american military and political leader   

0180  Antonius marcus aurelius: [marcus verus], emperor of rome,   

0461  Death of St patrick: Patron st of ireland,   

0659  Death of Gertrudis van nijvel: Saint/patron of travellers,   

1040  Death of Harold harefoot (harold i): King of england (1035-40),   

1058  King lulach i of scotland: King lulach i of scotland   

1199  Death of Jocelin: Bishop of glasgow   

1272  Emperor go-saga of japan: Emperor go-saga of japan (b. 1220)   

1425  Death of Ashikaga yoshikazu: Japanese shogun (b. 1407)