376 Historic Events for January 2
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| 1885 |
Birth |
Johannes Ringers, Dutch water engineer (dikes)
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| 1885 |
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Gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum
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| 1886 |
Birth |
Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet (In New-York)
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| 1889 |
Birth |
Walter Baldwin, Ohio, actor (Gay Amigo)
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| 1889 |
Birth |
Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine)
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| 1890 |
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Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny
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| 1890 |
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Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer
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| 1892 |
Birth |
Lura Anson, Nebraska, entertainer
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| 1892 |
Death |
George B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90
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| 1893 |
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World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago [or 0501]
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| 1893 |
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1st US commemoratives and 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued
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| 1894 |
Birth |
Robert Nathan, NYC, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie)
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| 1895 |
Birth |
Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, UN)
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| 1896 |
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Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!)
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| 1899 |
Birth |
Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer
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| 1899 |
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Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO (1957-61)
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| 1900 |
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Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris
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| 1900 |
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E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal)
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| 1901 |
Birth |
Rex O'Malley, London England, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight)
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| 1901 |
Birth |
Robert Marshall, founder (Wilderness Society)
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| 1901 |
Birth |
Torsten Ralf, Swedish tenor (Daphne)
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| 1903 |
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Pres T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem JMA Asselbergs], literary
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