414 Historic Events for January 17
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| 1899 |
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US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
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| 1899 |
Birth |
Al Capone, Italy, gangster (Chicago bootlegging)
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| 1899 |
Birth |
Nevil Shute [Norway], London, novelist (On the Beach, Town Like Alice)
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| 1899 |
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Robert Maynard Hutchins, US, educator/civil libertarian
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| 1899 |
Birth |
Roel [Martinus F] Houwink, Dutch literary (1 Man Without Character)
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| 1900 |
Birth |
Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts
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| 1901 |
Death |
Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87
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| 1901 |
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Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer
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| 1902 |
Death |
Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed
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| 1902 |
Birth |
Geoffrey W Lloyd, British minister of Brandstoffen/Energy (1951-55)
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Warren Hull, Gasport NY, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World)
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| 1904 |
Birth |
Grant Withers, Pueblo CO, actor (Oklahoma, Annie)
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| 1904 |
Event |
Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater
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| 1904 |
Birth |
Patsy Ruth Miller, actress (Quebec, Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds)
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| 1905 |
Event |
Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer and C G Scannell, Chicago
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| 1905 |
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Franz Schmid, Germany, ascended northside of Matterhorn (1931)
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| 1907 |
Birth |
Henk H Badings, Bandung Indonesia, Dutch opera composer (Orestes)
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| 1908 |
Death |
Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72
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| 1908 |
Birth |
Akkineni LV Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad, producer
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| 1910 |
Death |
Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69
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| 1910 |
Birth |
Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore)
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| 1910 |
Death |
Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies
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| 1910 |
Birth |
Michael Economides, restaurateur
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| 1911 |
Birth |
Hermann Pfrogner, Austria, musicologist (Zerrissene Orpheus)
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| 1911 |
Death |
Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88
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