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1896  Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer.   

1898  National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY.   

1898  John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet (El Dorado)   

1899  5th US Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD.   

1899  Milton S Eisenhower, Dwight's brother/pres (Pennsylvania State).   

1900  Larry Kent, CA, director (High Stakes).   

1902  Magda [Helena] Lupescu, wife of King Carol II of Romania.   

1903  Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals".   

1903  Roy Acuff, Maynardville Tenn, country musician (Hee Haw)   

1904  Wilbur Wright makes his inaugural airplane flight   

1904  Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight   

1904  Tom Conway, Russia, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show)   

1906  Kathryn Murray, Jersey City NJ, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party).   

1907  Fay Wray, Alberta Canada, actress-King Kong's main squeeze   

1908  Gerd Gaiser, German writer (Ship in the Mountain).   

1909  Carlos Estrada, composer   

1910  Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa.   

1910  George D Kilpatrick, Canadian/British bible scholar.   

1911  Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist.   

1912  Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight claims   

1912  Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer   

1913  1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY.   

1913  Hans Filbinger, German politician (CDU).   

1914  Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I   

1914  Creighton Abrams, US, army general (Vietnam War)   

1914  Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, [Uncle Chose], Boer general, dies at 66.   

1915  Tanks used for the inaugural time, by the British in the Somme   

1915  Boston Braves beat St Louis Cards 20-1   

1915  Helmut Schoen, football coach   

1916  inaugural tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France   

1916  Sgt. Donal Forrester Brown, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at High Wood, Somme France.   

1916  1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France.   

1916  Margaret Lockwood, Karachi India, actress (Lady Vanishes).   

1916  Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer, dies at 82.   

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0973  Al-biruni: Mathematician   

1254  Marco polo: Italian explorer   

1505  Maria: Queen of hungary/wife of louis ii/governess of neth (1531-55)   

1533  Catherine of austria: Queen consort of poland and lithuania   

1572  Erasmus widmann: Composer   

1580  Charles annibal fabrot: French lawyer   

1586  Cristobal de isla diego: Composer   

1613  François de la rochefoucauld: French writer   

0009  Publius quinctilius varus: Roman viceroy of syria, suicide at 59   

0668  Death of Constans ii: Byzantine emperor (b. 630)   

0866  Robert the strong: Margrave of neustria   

0921  Death of Ludmilla: Wife of 1st christian bohemian king borijov i/saint,   

0928  Death of Louis iii: The blind proveneaals king of lombardije/germany,   

1231  Death of Louis i: Duke of wittelsbach,   

1352  Death of Ewostatewos: Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)   

1500  John morton: Archbishop of canterbury