526 Historic Events for February 1
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| 1878 |
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Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate
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| 1879 |
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Sydney Baynes, composer
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| 1880 |
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Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer
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| 1880 |
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Antonio Guarnieri, composer
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| 1881 |
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Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer
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| 1881 |
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US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
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| 1882 |
Birth |
Louis St Laurent, Compton Quebec, (L) 12th Canadian PM (1948-57)
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| 1883 |
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Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV)
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| 1883 |
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Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies
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| 1883 |
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French lt-col Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
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| 1884 |
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Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
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| 1884 |
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1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
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| 1885 |
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Camille Chautemps, premier France
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| 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)
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| 1887 |
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Dirk Roosenburg, Dutch architect
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| 1889 |
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Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, So Arabia)
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| 1889 |
Death |
Joseph Gungl, composer, dies at 78
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| 1891 |
Birth |
James Price Johnson, composer
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| 1892 |
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K Rudolf Mengelberg, composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall)
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| 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
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| 1893 |
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Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
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| 1893 |
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Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin
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| 1895 |
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John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
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| 1896 |
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Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/pres of Nicaragua (1937-56)
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| 1896 |
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Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin
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