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01/01/1907
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Pres Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day
Type: Event
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01/01/1907
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Erich Schmid, composer
Type: Birth
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01/01/1907
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Cyrill Kistler, composer, dies at 58
Type: Death
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01/01/1908
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1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square
Type: Event
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01/01/1908
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Jack Hobbs makes his Test debut at the MCG (83 and 28)
Type: Event
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01/01/1908
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Kinue Hitoma, Japan, 800m runner (Oly-silver-1928)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1909
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Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4)
Type: Event
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01/01/1909
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Barry Goldwater, (Sen-R-Az, 1953-65, 69- )/Pres candidate (R) 1964)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1909
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D D Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman and wicket-keeper 1936-46)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1909
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Dana Andrews, Collins Miss, actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1910
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Simpson-Hayward (England) takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs
Type: Event
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01/01/1910
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Russ Bender, actor/writer (Amazing Colossal Man, Space Monster)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1911
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Belgian Mining law introduces 9«-hour work day
Type: Event
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01/01/1911
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South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government
Type: Event
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01/01/1911
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Endre Szervanszky, composer [or Dec 27]
Type: Birth
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01/01/1911
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Hank Greenberg, Hall-of-Fame 1st baseman (Detroit Tiger)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1912
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1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles/12.3 km)
Type: Event
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01/01/1912
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Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic
Type: Event
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01/01/1912
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Kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole
Type: Birth
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01/01/1912
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Victor Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader
Type: Birth
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01/01/1913
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Post office begins parcel post deliveries
Type: Event
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01/01/1913
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Eliot Janeway, financial writer (Economics of Chaos)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1914
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1st scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot)
Type: Event
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01/01/1914
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Klaas ter Laan becomes Neth's 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam)
Type: Event
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01/01/1914
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Northern and Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria
Type: Event
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01/01/1915
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DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview
Type: Event
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01/01/1915
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Jews of Laibach Austria expelled
Type: Event
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01/01/1915
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Fran‡ois Bondy, writer
Type: Birth
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01/01/1915
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Lewis Bingham Keeble, town planner
Type: Birth
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01/01/1916
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1st football game in Rose Bowl (Washington State-Brown)
Type: Event
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01/01/1916
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1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published
Type: Event
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01/01/1916
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Earl Wrightson, Balt Md, singer (Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1918
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Last day of the Julian calendar in Finland
Type: Event
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01/01/1918
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Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer, (WR 100m, 1:04.06)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1919
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Belorussian SSR established
Type: Event
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01/01/1919
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Bernard Drukker, Dutch organist/pianist/orch leader (Devil's Wheel)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1919
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Carole Landis, Fairchild WI, actress (One Million BC, Topper Returns)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1919
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J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, NYC, novelist (Catcher in the Rye)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1919
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William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60
Type: Death
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01/01/1920
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Elisabeth Andersen, [Anna de Bruyn], Dutch actress (Yerma, Titania)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1920
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Roger Peacock, writer
Type: Birth
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01/01/1920
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Paul Adam, French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57
Type: Death
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01/01/1921
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Alain Mimoun O'Kacha, Algerian/French cross country (Oly-gold-1956)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1922
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Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road
Type: Event
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01/01/1922
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Ernest F Hollings, (Sen-D-SC, 1966- )
Type: Birth
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01/01/1923
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Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established
Type: Event
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01/01/1923
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Chalmers Goodlin, US test pilot (XS-1)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1923
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Milton Jackson, US, vibraphonist (Milt of Bags)
Type: Birth
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01/01/1924
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Grossdeutsche Volksgemeinschaft/V”lkische Block replaces NSDAP
Type: Event
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01/01/1925
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Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo
Type: Event
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