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02/01/1878
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Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate
Type: Birth
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02/01/1879
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Sydney Baynes, composer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1880
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Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1880
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Antonio Guarnieri, composer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1881
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Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1881
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US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
Type: Event
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02/01/1882
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Louis St Laurent, Compton Quebec, (L) 12th Canadian PM (1948-57)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1883
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Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1883
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Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies
Type: Death
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02/01/1883
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French lt-col Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
Type: Event
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02/01/1884
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Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1884
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1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
Type: Event
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02/01/1885
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Camille Chautemps, premier France
Type: Birth
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02/01/1887
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Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern Calif and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
Type: Event
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02/01/1887
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Dirk Roosenburg, Dutch architect
Type: Birth
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02/01/1889
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Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, So Arabia)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1889
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Joseph Gungl, composer, dies at 78
Type: Death
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02/01/1891
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James Price Johnson, composer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1892
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K Rudolf Mengelberg, composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1892
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Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite
Type: Event
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02/01/1893
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Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
Type: Event
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02/01/1893
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Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin
Type: Event
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02/01/1895
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John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1896
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Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/pres of Nicaragua (1937-56)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1896
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Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin
Type: Event
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02/01/1897
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Denise Robins, London, romantic novelist (1st Long Kiss)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1898
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1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co
Type: Event
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02/01/1900
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Stephen Potter, humorist/writer (School for Scoundrels, Shipbuilders)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1901
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Clark Gable, Cadiz OH, actor (Gone With the Wind)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1902
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Salomon Jaoassohn, composer, dies at 70
Type: Death
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02/01/1902
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China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
Type: Event
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02/01/1902
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Carlo Borbolla, composer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1902
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Langston Hughes, poet/translator (Weary Blues)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1902
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Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben," premieres in Berlin
Type: Event
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02/01/1903
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Georg Rendl, Austria miner/beekeeper/writer (The Bees Novel)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1903
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George G Stokes, British physicist/pres Royal Society, dies at 83
Type: Death
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02/01/1904
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S J Perelman, Brooklyn, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1904
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Peter PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76
Type: Death
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02/01/1905
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Emilio Segre
Type: Birth
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02/01/1905
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Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg
Type: Birth
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02/01/1905
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Oswald Aschenbach, German painter, dies at 77
Type: Death
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02/01/1905
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Hungarian premier Tisza resigns
Type: Event
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02/01/1905
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Hague soccer team ADO froms
Type: Event
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02/01/1906
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1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
Type: Event
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02/01/1906
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English min of Frgn affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured
Type: Event
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02/01/1906
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Hildegarde, Adell Wisc, night club vocalist (I'll Be Seeing You)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1906
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Pierre Cardevielle, French composer/conductor (Amants Captifs)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1907
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Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, composer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1907
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Camargo Guarnieri, Brazil, composer/conductor
Type: Birth
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02/01/1907
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Gnter Eich, German literary (Underground Highway, Girls of Viterbo)
Type: Birth
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