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1915  Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens with dual nationalities.   

1915  Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile.   

1915  Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II).   

1916  Boston Red Sox beat Bkln Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 13th World Series   

1917  The inaugural Battle of Passchendaele, now Passendale   

1917  Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train).   

1918  Cloquet Minn and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die.   

1918  inaugural use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital).   

1918  1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital).   

1918  Emil Cossetto, composer   

1919  Andre Casanova, composer   

1920  Cleve Indians beat Bkln Dodgers, 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series.   

1920  Alice Childress, US playwright/actress (Wedding Band)   

1921  Kenneth Griffith, Writer, actor and documentary film maker is born   

1921  Jaroslav Drobny, Czech, hockey (Oly-gold-1948), tennis (Wimb-1954)   

1922  Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33.   

1923  NY Giant's Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in World Series.   

1923  Jean Nidetch, Brooklyn, nutritionist founder (Weight Watchers).   

1923  A P "Bunny" Lucas, cricketer (five Tests for England 1879-82), dies   

1924  Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow   

1924  Anatole France, writer, dies at 80   

1925  Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon (2:19:01.8).   

1925  Bill Parkhouse, cricketer (England batsman in 7 Tests 1950-59).   

1926  Hans Liebold, Germany, auto racer (Nardo, Italy)   

1927  Hermann Gorner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet.   

1927  Antonia Rey, Havana Cuba, actress (True Colors, Wise Guys)   

1928  Thomas Burnett Swann, US, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur).   

1929  Cubs blow 8-0 World Series lead, A's score 10 in 1 inning   

1929  Robert Coles, Milton Mass, author (Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973)   

1929  Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52   

1930  Jack S Gottlieb, composer   

1931  1st International Conference on Calendar Reform.   

1931  Raoul Pleskow, composer.   

1933  Alcatraz is recorded as becoming a federal prison (unofficially).   

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1350  Dimitri "donskoi" ivanovitch: Great monarch of vladimir-soezdal   

1350  Dmitry donskoy: Grand prince of moscovy   

1490  Bernardo pisano: Composer   

1537  Edward vi: Tudor, king of england (1547-53)   

1558  Jacques sirmond: French scholar and jesuit   

1558  Archduke maximilian iii of austria: Archduke maximilian iii of austria (d. 1618)   

1576  Thomas dudley: English-born american colonial magistrate   

1602  William chillingworth: English religious leader   

0632  Edwin of deira: King of northumbria and bretwalda   

0638  Honorius i: [dux plebis], italian pope,   

0642  Johannes iv: Dalmatisch pope (640-42),   

1093  Robrecht de fries: Earl of flanders (1071-93),   

1095  Death of Margrave leopold ii of austria: Margrave leopold ii of austria (b. 1050)   

1176  Death of William d'aubigny: 1st earl of arundel, english politician   

1320  Death of Michael ix paleologi: Emperor of byzantine (1295-1320),   

1343  Reinald ii: Duke of gelre,