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01/05/1912
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1st National Hockey Assn game (Victoria)
Type: Event
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01/05/1914
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George Reeves, [George Lescher Bessolo], actor (Superman)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1914
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Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day
Type: Event
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01/05/1915
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Mabel Leigh, potter
Type: Birth
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01/05/1915
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Uta Graf, singer/teacher
Type: Birth
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01/05/1916
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Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro
Type: Event
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01/05/1917
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Reginald Smith Brindle, composer
Type: Birth
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01/05/1917
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Wieland Wagner, German opera director
Type: Birth
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01/05/1918
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British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace
Type: Event
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01/05/1918
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Jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1919
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Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege
Type: Event
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01/05/1919
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National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
Type: Event
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01/05/1920
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Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to NY Yankees
Type: Event
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01/05/1920
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NY Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth
Type: Event
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01/05/1920
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Mohammad Aslam Khokhar, cricket (Pak bat scored 16 and 18 in only test)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1920
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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Brescia Italy, pianist
Type: Birth
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01/05/1921
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Jean BMRLAAM d'Aviano, grand duke of Luxembourg (1964- )
Type: Birth
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01/05/1921
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Friedrich Drrenmatt, Switzerland, playwright/novelist (Visit)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1922
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Ernest H Shackleton, Brit South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47
Type: Death
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01/05/1923
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Sam Phillips, musician/record founder (Sun)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1923
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Robert L Bernstein, NYC, publisher (Random House)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1925
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Wolf Morris, actor (Decoy)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1925
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James Gleason and Richard Tabers "Is zat so?," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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01/05/1925
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Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman gov in USA
Type: Event
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01/05/1925
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Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office
Type: Event
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01/05/1925
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French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, and Hugh Jennings
Type: Event
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01/05/1926
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James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day and $5 daily minimum wage
Type: Event
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01/05/1926
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Robert Earle, Baldwin NY, TV host (GE College Bowl)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1926
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Claude (Buddy) Young, NFL running back (Yankees, Texans, Colts)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1927
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Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
Type: Event
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01/05/1927
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Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
Type: Event
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01/05/1928
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Walter Fritz Mondale, (Sen-D-Minn)/42nd VP (1977-81)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1928
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Zulfikar Ali Khan Bhutto, president/premier (Pakistan)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1928
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Imtiaz Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistan wicket-keeper in 41 Tests 1952-62)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1929
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Wilbert Harrison, singer
Type: Birth
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01/05/1929
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Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
Type: Event
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01/05/1930
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Richard Hayes, Passaic NJ, singer/emcee (Name That Tune)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1930
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Frederick Charles Tillis, composer
Type: Birth
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01/05/1930
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Edward Galven Givens Jr, Quanah Texas, Major USAF/astronaut
Type: Birth
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01/05/1930
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Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
Type: Event
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01/05/1931
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Walter Davis, US, running high jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1931
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Robert Duvall, San Diego Calif, actor (Great Santini, Taxi Driver)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1931
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1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
Type: Event
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01/05/1931
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Alfred Brendel, Wiesenberg Moravia, Austrian pianist
Type: Birth
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01/05/1931
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Alvin Ailey, choreographer (American Dance Theater)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1932
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Umberto Eco, author (Name of the Rose)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1932
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Rasa Maximovna Titorenko Gorbachev, Russia's 1st lady (1982-1991)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1932
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Chuck Noll, Cleveland, NFL coach (Pittsburgh Steelers)
Type: Birth
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01/05/1933
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Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
Type: Event
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01/05/1933
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Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60
Type: Death
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