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01/12/1890
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Mordecai W Johnson, educator
Type: Birth
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01/12/1893
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Hermann Goering, propoganda minister (Nazi Germany)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1894
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Billy Gilbert, Louisville KY, actor (Paradise Alley, Safari, Rio)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1896
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1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)
Type: Event
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01/12/1896
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Rex Ingram, Ireland, actor/director (Elmer Gantry, God's Little Acre)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1897
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Hendrik J Valk, painter/cartoonist/graphic artist
Type: Birth
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01/12/1898
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Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer
Type: Birth
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01/12/1899
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Paul H Mller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1900
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Freeland Colony founded in US
Type: Event
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01/12/1900
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Vaino Hannikainen, composer
Type: Birth
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01/12/1901
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Kurt Jooss, Wrtemburg, Germany, ballet choreographer
Type: Birth
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01/12/1902
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Ibn Abdul-Aziz Saud, Kuwait, king (Saudi Arabia)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1902
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Ray Teal, Grand Rapids Mich, actor (Sheriff Roy Coffee-Bonanza)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1902
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Simon H Spoor, Dutch gen/intelligence officer for Gen MacArthur
Type: Birth
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01/12/1903
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Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam
Type: Event
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01/12/1903
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Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170
Type: Event
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01/12/1903
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Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist (1st Rus nuclear bomb)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1904
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Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garison
Type: Event
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01/12/1904
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Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist
Type: Birth
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01/12/1906
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1st time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26)
Type: Event
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01/12/1906
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Football rules committee legalizes forward pass
Type: Event
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01/12/1906
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Henny Youngman, England, comedian (Take my wife please...)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1906
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Tex Ritter, Texas, country singer (5 Star Jubilee, Wayward Wind)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1907
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Britain grants responsible govt to former colony of Transvaal
Type: Event
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01/12/1907
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Sergei Korolev, scientist
Type: Birth
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01/12/1908
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Ben Seijes, Dutch historian (WW II)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1908
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Jos LimĒn, Mexican/US dancer (I, Odysseus)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1909
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Mauritz Hugo, Sweden, actor (Atomic Blonde, Road Agent)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1910
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Charles Martin, cartoonist
Type: Birth
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01/12/1910
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Luise Rainer, Austria, actress (Escapade, Good Earth, Big City)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1910
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Patsy Kelly, Bkln, actress (Rosemary's Baby, North Ave Irregulars)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1912
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-47øF (-44øC), Washta, Iowa (state record)
Type: Event
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01/12/1912
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Peter Pooley, broadcaster
Type: Birth
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01/12/1914
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Edqard John Gurney, politician
Type: Birth
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01/12/1915
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House of Reps rejects proposal to give women right to vote
Type: Event
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01/12/1915
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Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician
Type: Birth
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01/12/1915
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Frank Annunzio, (Rep-D-IL, 1965- )
Type: Birth
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01/12/1915
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Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot
Type: Birth
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01/12/1915
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Martin Agronsky, journalist (1952 Peabody, 1961 DuPont-Columbia)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1916
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Britain proclaims Gilbert and Ellice Is colony in Pacific
Type: Event
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01/12/1916
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A P[ieter] W Botha, Orange Free State, president of South Africa
Type: Birth
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01/12/1917
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Walter Hendl, West New York NJ, conductor
Type: Birth
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01/12/1918
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Montreal Canadien Joe Malone scores 5 goals beating Ottawa 9-4
Type: Event
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01/12/1920
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Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings, agreed to
Type: Event
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01/12/1920
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James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader
Type: Birth
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01/12/1921
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Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball
Type: Event
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01/12/1921
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John Henry Davis Jr, Smithtown NY, weightlifter (Olym-gold-1948, 52)
Type: Birth
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01/12/1921
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Leo Smit, Phila Penn, pianist/composer
Type: Birth
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01/12/1924
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History of Science Society organized at Boston
Type: Event
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01/12/1924
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Jan Willem Radecker, sculptor/son of John Raedecker
Type: Birth
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