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1905  John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata).   

1906  Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean).   

1907  Eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble)   

1908  Louis Gaste, songwriter.   

1909  Einar Dessau of Denmark makes inaugural ham broadcast   

1909  Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast.   

1910  US magician Harry Houdini completes three controlled flights in a Voisin boxkite biplane at Digger's Rest, Victoria, the inaugural controlled flight in a powered aircraft in Australia. mar181913 - Greece's King George I is assassinated in Salonika.   

1910  1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC.   

1910  Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88).   

1911  North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law.   

1911  Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction).   

1913  King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki   

1913  Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine.   

1913  George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67   

1914  Fourteen suffragettes are arrested and fined in Perth for wearing unsheathed hatpins (which they were said to have used as weapons)   

1914  White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China.   

1914  White Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China.   

1914  Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer.   

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles (The plan was supported by Winston Churchill).   

1915  French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed.   

1915  Turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea Victory against allied powers(USA, Australia, England, Italy) during inaugural World War.   

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles.   

1915  Richard Thomas Condon, author   

1916  Louis Toebosch, composer   

1917  William Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies   

1918  Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam.   

1918  Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms   

1918  Willem Coenen, composer, dies at 80.   

1919  Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City   

1919  Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City   

1919  Laila Schou Nilsen, Norway, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1936).   

1920  In this year, Greece formally adopts the Gregorian calendar.   

1920  Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator.   

1921  Steamer "Hong Kong" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1000   

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1380  Liduina van schiedam: Dutch "christ's bride"/saint   

1395  John holland: 2nd duke of exeter, english military leader   

1496  Mary tudor: Daughter of henry vii of england and queen consort of louis xii of france   

1548  Cornelis ketel: Dutch portrait painter/poet   

1556  Francois-hercule de valois: French duke of anjou/brabant   

1578  Adam elsheimer: German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized   

1590  Manuel de faria e sousa: Portuguese historian and poet   

1602  Jacques de billy: French mathematician   

0235  Marcus aurelius alexander: Syrian emperor of rome (222-235), murdered   

0978  Death of Edward: The martyr, king of anglo-saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15   

1227  Death of Honorius iii: [cencio savelli], pope (1216-27),   

1314  Jacques de molay: The last grand master of order of knights,   

1493  John of lannoy: Flemish governor/viceroy of neth/zealand,   

1582  Jean jaurequi: Basque murderer of willem of orange, lynched   

1583  Death of King magnus of livonia: King magnus of livonia (b. 1540)   

1584  Ivan iv: The terrible, russian tsar (1547-84),