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01/15/1900
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Csar Domela, Dutch painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis son)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1900
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William Heinesen, Fros Island, writer (Noatun)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1902
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud, king (Saudi Arabia)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1904
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Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73
Type: Death
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01/15/1905
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Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater
Type: Event
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01/15/1906
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Aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate
Type: Birth
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01/15/1906
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Rezso Kokai, composer
Type: Birth
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01/15/1907
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3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee De Forest
Type: Event
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01/15/1907
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Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them
Type: Event
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01/15/1908
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C Hill and R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Aust
Type: Event
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01/15/1908
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Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1908
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Roberta Bitgood, composer
Type: Birth
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01/15/1909
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Elie Siegmeister, NYC, composer (Plough and the Stars)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1909
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Enrique Sasal y Chapi, composer
Type: Birth
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01/15/1909
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Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1909
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Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85
Type: Death
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01/15/1909
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Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
Type: Death
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01/15/1911
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Cy Feuer, NYC, Bdwy producer (Feuer and Martin-Chorus Line)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1911
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Wim Kan, Dutch cabaretier
Type: Birth
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01/15/1911
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Wilhelm Berger, composer, dies at 49
Type: Death
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01/15/1912
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Michel J-P Debr, premier of France (1959-62)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1913
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Lloyd Bridges, San Leandro Calif, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1914
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Lord Dacre of Glanton, British historian
Type: Birth
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01/15/1915
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Japan claims economic control of China
Type: Event
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01/15/1915
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Sydney, Kern and Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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01/15/1915
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Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63
Type: Death
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01/15/1916
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Mikki Doyle, journalist
Type: Birth
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01/15/1918
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Andreas M Donner, Dutch jurist (constitutional law)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1918
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Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1954-1971)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1919
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2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21
Type: Event
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01/15/1919
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Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres
Type: Event
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01/15/1919
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Pianist and statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland
Type: Event
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01/15/1919
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Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires
Type: Event
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01/15/1919
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W Collison and O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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01/15/1919
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Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47
Type: Death
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01/15/1919
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Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered
Type: Death
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01/15/1920
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John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, Phila, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY
Type: Birth
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01/15/1920
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John Junor, British editor in chief (Sunday Express)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1922
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Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier
Type: Event
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01/15/1922
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Franz Fhmann, writer
Type: Birth
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01/15/1922
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John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
Type: Death
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01/15/1923
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Lee Teng-hui, president of ROC (Taiwan), head of KMT (1988- )
Type: Birth
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01/15/1924
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3rd Dutch govt Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
Type: Event
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01/15/1924
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Geza Zichy, composer, dies at 74
Type: Death
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01/15/1925
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Hans Luther forms German govt, with DNVP
Type: Event
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01/15/1925
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Keith Bentley, international racing cyclist
Type: Birth
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01/15/1925
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Ruth Slenczynska, Sacramento, California, pianist
Type: Birth
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01/15/1926
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Maria Schell, Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1926
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Enrico Toselli, composer, dies at 42
Type: Death
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01/15/1927
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Francis Routh, composer
Type: Birth
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