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1922  Max Bygraves, London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days).   

1923  Disney Company is founded.   

1923  Disney Company founded.   

1923  Bert Kaempfert, rocker   

1925  Germany Weimar Republic signs Lucarno agreement guaranteeing as equal partner with Western European states the frontiers of Western Europe and that no country will attack or invade the other   

1925  Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution.   

1925  Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact).   

1925  Angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote)   

1926  US Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1200   

1926  Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed   

1927  Gus Yatron, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )   

1928  In this year, Mickey Cochrane claims AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points.   

1928  Mary Daly, American feminist.   

1928  Septimus Kinneir, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies   

1929  Bill Green, (Rep-R-NY, 1978- )   

1931  Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd results in the deaths of her inaugural victim   

1931  Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st.   

1934  Mao Tse-tung and 25000 troops begin 6000 mile Long March.   

1936  Lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA.   

1939  Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands.   

1939  Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63.   

1940  Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named inaugural black general in regular army.   

1940  Lottery for inaugural US WW II draftees held; #158 was drawn 1st   

1940  Warsaw Ghetto established   

1940  Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army   

1941  "Gordo" comic strip inaugural appears in newspapers   

1941  General Hideki Tojo takes over as Japanese Premier.   

1941  Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow.   

1941  "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers   

1942  Cyclone in Bay of Bengal results in the deaths of 40000 south of Calcutta India   

1942  Aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC.   

1942  12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed   

1943  Chicago opens new subway system   

1943  The Navy accepted its inaugural helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4B (HNS-1), at Bridgeport, Connecticut.   

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1396  William de la pole: 1st duke of suffolk, english soldier   

1430  King james ii of scotland: King james ii of scotland (d. 1460)   

1483  Gasparo contarini: Italian diplomat and cardinal   

1535  Niwa nagahide: Japanese warlord   

1605  Charles c dassoucy: French writer/singer   

1663  Prince eugene of savoy: French-born austrian general   

1679  Jan dismas zelenka: Composer   

1708  Albrecht von haller: Switz, experimental physiology (acad of science)   

0775  Mansur: Kalief of abbasiden,   

1323  Death of Amadeus v the great: Count of flanders/savoy,   

1333  Death of Nicolaas v: [pietro rainalducci], italian anti-pope (1328-30),   

1355  Death of Louis: King of sicily, felled by the black death   

1473  Death of Reinoud ii van brederode: Viscount of utrecht,   

1553  Lucas cranach sr: German painter,   

1555  Death of Hugh latimer: Royal chaplain of anna boley, burned at stake at 80   

1570  Baron van montigny: Dutch earl of horne, murdered