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1929  1st Academy Awards   

1929  Adrienne Cecile Rich, Balt Md, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters).   

1929  Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies   

1930  6th Walker Cup US 10-Great Britain/Ireland 2.   

1930  6th Walker Cup: US, 10-2.   

1930  Desmond Langley, gov (Bermuda)   

1931  In this year, 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand claims 2:01.8.   

1932  Yanks 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland and Boston   

1932  Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered.   

1933  Cecil Travis is recorded as becoming 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game   

1936  In this year, 62nd Preakness George Woolf aboard Bold Venture claims in 1 59   

1936  The inaugural British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France   

1936  1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France.   

1938  38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta GA).   

1938  In cricket Bradman scores 278 Australia vs MCC, 349 minutes, 35 fours 1 six.   

1938  The inaugural animal breeding society forms (New Jersey)   

1938  1st animal breeding society forms (NJ).   

1938  Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies.   

1939  Food stamps are inaugural issued   

1939  1st AL night game, Phila Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)   

1940  Nazis forbid non-professional auto workers.   

1940  Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris   

1941  Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia.   

1941  Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham).   

1941  Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT).   

1941  1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"   

1942  The inaugural transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma.   

1942  1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma   

1942  Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies.   

1943  German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw.   

1943  Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting.   

1943  Nazi officer Jergen Stroop reports to his superiors that the Warsaw ghetto is no longer in existence. According to his calculations 7000 Jews have been killed in street fighting, 30000 have been deported to Treblinka and 5-6000 have perished in flames.   

1943  -17th] RAF bombs Möhne and Eder (Battle of Ruhr).   

1944  Military police attack gypsies   

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1558  Andreas of austria: Bohemia cardinal/gov of netherlands (1598-1600)   

1578  Everard digby: English conspirator   

1609  Ferdinand: Austria, cardinal of spain/governor of netherlands   

1641  Dudley north: Financier/economist   

1659  Campegius vitringa: Dutch theologist   

1710  William talbot: 1st earl talbot, english politician   

1718  Maria gaetana agnesi: Italian mathematician   

1748  Antonius van alphen: Apostolic vicar of de bosch   

0942  Saadiah gaon: Head of talmudic academy of sura,   

1265  Saint simon stock: English saint (b. 1165)   

1434  Death of Pieter appelmans: Flemish architect/master builder,   

1569  Death of Dirk willems: Anabaptist martyr   

1620  Death of William adams: English navigator (b. 1564)   

1657  Death of Andrzej bobola: Polish jesuit missionary (b. 1591)   

1667  Death of Thomas wriothesley: 4th earl of southampton, english statesman (b. 1607)   

1669  Death of Pietro da cortona: [berrettini], painter/architect,