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1919  Heloise Bowles, columnist Heloise's mother (Hints from Heloise)   

1920  In this year, Wash Senator Walter Johnson claims his 300th game vs Detroit.   

1921  Florence Allen is inaugural woman judge to sentence a man to death.   

1921  Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats   

1921  Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death.   

1922  Agha Hasan Abedi, banker   

1923  Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], NYC, photographer (Vogue/Harper's Bazaar).   

1924  Joly Braga Santos, composer   

1925  Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published   

1925  Patrice Munsel, Spokane Wash, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show)   

1925  Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies   

1926  Cestmir Gregor, composer.   

1927  "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie   

1927  Shirley Spork, LPGA golfer.   

1928  John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab and suffers a broken leg   

1931  Ã…dalen shootings: five people are killed in Ã…dalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.   

1932  "We Want Beer!" parade in New York.   

1932  "We Want Beer!" parade in NY   

1935  Los Angeles' Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US.   

1935  Plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies independence agreement   

1935  Griffith Planetarium opens in LA.   

1936  Edmond HH Allenby, English fieldmarshal in Egypt, dies at 74   

1938  English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3   

1938  In this year, 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber claims in 1:59.8.   

1938  Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans, actor (Ghetto), dies at 81.   

1939  Lina Medina is recorded as becoming the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five   

1940  Admiral Furstner departs to England.   

1940  German breakthrough at Sedan   

1940  Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production.   

1940  Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany.   

1940  Rotterdam, in Holland, captured by German forces during WW2.   

1940  Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies   

1941  3600 Parisian Jews arrested.   

1942  The Women's Auxilliary Army Corps (WACS) is established.   

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1316  Charles iv: King of bohemia (1346-78)/emperor (1355-78)   

1316  Charles iv: Holy roman emperor   

1553  Margaret of valois: Wife of henry iv   

1652  Johann philipp fortsch: Composer   

1666  Victor amadeus ii of sardinia: Victor amadeus ii of sardinia (d. 1732)   

1679  Peder [nielsen] horrebow: Danish astronomer   

1686  Daniel gabriel fahrenheit: Prussia, inventor (thermometer) [ns=5/24]   

1699  Hans joachim von zieten: Prussian field marshal   

0347  Death of Pachomius: Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (coenobieten),   

0649  Theodore: Greek pope (642-49) (excommunicated by paul ii),   

0964  Death of John xii: [octavianus], pope (955-64),   

1470  Charles viii of sweden: Charles viii of sweden (b. 1409)   

1565  Death of Nicolaus von amsdorf: German reform theologist,   

1574  Death of Guru amar das: Third sikh guru (b. 1479)   

1608  Charles iii: Duke of lorraine (b. 1543)   

1610  Death of Henry iv: 1st bourbon-king of france (1572, 89-1610), murdered at 56