374 Historic Events for January 19
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| 1898 |
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Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game
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| 1899 |
Birth |
[John] Herbert Whitton Sumsion, organist/composer
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| 1899 |
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Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms
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| 1902 |
Birth |
Heinrich Schmist-Barrien, German author (Moorkeerl)
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| 1903 |
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1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US and England
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Erwin Nyiregyh zi, Budapest Hungary, pianist
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| 1903 |
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New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
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| 1904 |
Birth |
James Winston Watts, developer (Frontal Lobotomy)
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| 1905 |
Birth |
Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer
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| 1905 |
Birth |
Oveta Culp Hobby, govt official/newspaper publisher/CEO (Houston Post)
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| 1906 |
Birth |
Lanny Ross, Seattle, radio singer (Show Boat, The Swift Show)
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| 1906 |
Birth |
Ish Kabbible, [Merwyn Bogue], Penns, comedian (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
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| 1906 |
Event |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Und Pippa Tanzt!," premieres in Berlin
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| 1907 |
Birth |
Lillian Harvey, London England, actress (Invitation to the Waltz)
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| 1909 |
Event |
Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in NYC
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| 1910 |
Birth |
Willi Schmidt, Germany, director
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| 1910 |
Event |
Germany and Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty
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| 1910 |
Event |
National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Leonid V Kantorovich, St Petersburg Russia, economist (Nobel)
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Francis David Charteris, earl of Wemyss and March/Scottish landowner
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch soc dem chairman (1965-69)
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| 1913 |
Event |
Raymond Poincar‚ installed as president of France
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author
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| 1913 |
Death |
David Emlyn Evans, composer, dies at 69
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