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1908  American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later   

1908  Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate   

1910  1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)   

1910  Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo Japan, director (7 Samurai, Living)   

1911  Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby league player.   

1912  Dixie Cup invented   

1912  Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1936).   

1914  Robert Gross, composer   

1914  Teunis Stoel, actor, dies at 62   

1915  Zion Mule Corp forms   

1915  Francis Berry, poet/Shakespearean scholar   

1917  4 day series of tornadoes results in the deaths of 211 in Midwest US   

1917  Launching of USS New Mexico, inaugural dreadnought with turboelectric drive   

1917  Tornadoes results in the deaths of 211 over 4 days in Midwest US   

1917  H C Allen, American historian.   

1918  Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River.   

1918  Lithuania proclaims independence   

1918  Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp).   

1918  The giant German gun, Big Bertha, shells Paris from 120 km away;.   

1918  Cesar Cortinas, composer, dies at 27.   

1919  Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted   

1919  Benito Mussolini, an Italian World War I veteran and publisher of Socialist newspapers, breaks with the Italian Socialists and establishes the nationalist Fasci di Combattimento   

1919  Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms.   

1919  Michael Lyne, British air Vice-marshal   

1919  Jean HL Bossard, actor/impresario (2 Orphans), dies at 45   

1920  Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms.   

1920  Alexander Grigori Harut'unyan, composer.   

1921  Donald Malcome Campbell, Surrey UK, boat racer (1955 speed records)   

1922  inaugural airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington DC   

1922  1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.   

1923  Frank Silver and Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas".   

1925  Tennessee is recorded as becoming inaugural state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution.   

1925  The teaching of Darwins theory of evolution banned in Tennessee schools.   

1925  Tennessee is recorded as becoming 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution.   

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1429  Margaret of anjou: Wife of henry vi of england   

1599  Thomas selle: Composer   

1638  Frederik ruysch: Dutch anatomist   

1645  William kidd: Pirate legend from scotland   

1699  John bartram: Naturalist/explorer, father of american botany   

1723  Agha mohammad khan ghajar: King of iran   

1732  Marie adélaïde of france: Daughter of louis xv   

1736  Iman willem falck: Dutch governor of ceylon (1765-83)   

1103  Death of Eudes i: Duke of burgundy (b. 1058)   

1169  Shirkuh: Kurd general/vizier of cairo/saladin's uncle,   

1237  Death of Jan of brienne: King of jerusalem/emperor of constantinople,   

1361  Henry of grosmont: 1st duke of lancaster (b. c.1310)   

1369  Pedro: The cruel, king/tyrant of castile & leon, murdered   

1548  Death of Itagaki nobukata: Retainer of takeda shingen   

1555  Julius iii: [giovanni m del monte], pope (1550-55),   

1559  Emperor gelawdewos of ethiopia: Emperor gelawdewos of ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1521/1522)