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1900  Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law   

1903  Countee Cullen, US poet (Color, Ballad of the Brown Girl).   

1904  Akarova, [Marguerite Acarin], Belgian dancer (Les Biches)   

1905  Mikio Oda, Japan, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-1928).   

1906  Betsy Perk, [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73.   

1908  Camille Schmit, composer.   

1909  Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens   

1909  Ernst Gombrich, OM/FBA/director (Warburg Institute)   

1910  Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi   

1911  Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13735 m) completed.   

1911  Dennis Gomm, musician.   

1912  French protectorate in Morocco established.   

1912  Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar/naturalist.   

1912  Karl May, German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at 70.   

1913  Frankie Laine, Chicago Ill, actor (Frankie Laine Show, Rawhide).   

1914  Sonny Boy Williamson, [John Lee], blues musician (Down and Out Blues)   

1916  Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 3 games to 2   

1917  Els Aarne, composer.   

1918  In this year, Lt. Gordon M. Flowerdew Cdn. (Lord Strathcona's Horse) claims the Victoria Cross at Bois de Moreuil, France   

1918  Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2   

1918  John Gray, FRS/marine biologist.   

1919  Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act   

1919  Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf   

1919  McGeorge Bundy, Boston, national security adviser (JFK).   

1920  Turhan Bey, Vienna Austria, actor (Dragon Seed, Ali Baba and 40 Thieves)   

1921  Countess of Sutherland, English great land owner/multi-millionaire.   

1922  KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions.   

1922  German Germanovich Galinin, composer.   

1923  Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard University in 1920, incorporates.   

1923  Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates   

1923  Herbert Asmodi, writer   

1924  Milko Kelemen, composer.   

1925  Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians   

1925  Ivo Malek, composer.   

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1135  Maimonedes: Philosopher   

1222  Nichiren: Japan, buddhist priest/saint   

1326  Ivan ii of russia: Grand duke of muscovy   

1432  Mehmed ii: Ottoman sultan   

1640  John trenchard: English politician   

1672  Peter i "the great" romanov: Great tsar of russia (1682-1725)   

1674  Jethro tull: Agricultural writer (basildon), baptised   

1681  Pieter snyers: Flemish painter/engraver   

0988  Death of Arnulf ii: Count of flanders (965-988),   

1202  Joachim van fiore: Italian religious founder (joachimism),   

1486  Death of Thomas bourchier: Archbishop of canterbury   

1526  Konrad mutian: German humanist (b. 1471)   

1540  Matthäus lang von wellenburg: German statesman and archbishop of salzburg (b. 1469)   

1547  Death of Francois i of valois-angouleme: King of france (1515-47),   

1559  Death of Adam ries: German mathematician (b. 1492)   

1587  Death of Ralph sadler: English statesman (b. 1507)