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1901 Ivo Cruz, composer. 
1901 Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st pres Rep South-Africa, dies at 81.
1902 Great Britain and Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria
1903 Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (1277 runs at 35 47 in 23 Tests), dies
1904 Anthony Bushell, Kent England, actor (Journey's End)
1905 Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss President open world's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Iselle Italy and Brig Switzerland
1905 Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ.
1906 Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
1906 Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier.
1906 The last British soldiers leave Canada.
1906 Dutch King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel.
1909 Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title.
1909 Bruce Bennett, Tacoma Wash, actor (Before I Hang, Sahara)
1910 Cleve Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Wash 5-4 in 11 innings
1910 Alan Melville, cricketer (graceful South African batsman 1938-49).
1911 Maurice Ravels opera "L'Heure Espagnole," premieres in Paris
1912 American League president Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball
1912 Navy establishes North Atlantic Ice Patrol following RMS Titanic disaster
1912 AL Pres Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball
1913 Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japs from owning land.
1913 Albert Hardy, photographer
1915 Australians repel major Turkish attack on their positions at Gallipoli.
1915 Death on Gallipoli of Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick of "Simpson and his donkey" fame
1915 Lance Corporal Albert Jacka, 14th Battalion, AIF, is recorded as becoming the inaugural Australian to win a Victoria Cross in World War One for his action at Gallipoli, Turkey
1916 Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun
1918 Wash 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings.
1918 Florence Chadwick, swimmer (1st to swim English Channel both ways).
1919 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what was later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is the official date of commemoration of the Pontic Greek Genocide in Greece and Cyprus
1919 Betty Jameson, Norman OK, LPGA golfer (1947 US Women's Open)
1921 Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system.
1921 Charles van de Reve, slavic (Belief of Kameraden)
1922 David McLean, Akron Oh, actor (Tate-Tate).
1922 Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79.
1923 KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies.
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