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02/05/1889
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Ioan Dumitru Chirescu, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1891
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Elizabeth Ryan, Anaheim Calif, doubles tennis champ (6 time Wimbled)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1891
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Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1892
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George Saiko, writer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1893
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Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)
Type: Event
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02/05/1893
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Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1894
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Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
Type: Event
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02/05/1897
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Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
Type: Event
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02/05/1897
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Dirk U Stikker, director (Heineken)/Dutch foreign minister/NATO
Type: Birth
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02/05/1897
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Hoss Radbourn, pitcher won 60 games in 1884, dies at 42
Type: Death
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02/05/1900
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British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal
Type: Event
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02/05/1900
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Adlai E Stevenson, (Gov-D-Ill), pres candidate (D) (1952, 1956)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1901
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Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
Type: Event
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02/05/1901
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Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp
Type: Event
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02/05/1902
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Bronislaw Kaper, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1903
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Ivan Galamian, Tabriz Persia, violinist
Type: Birth
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02/05/1903
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Joan Whitney Payson, owner (NY Mets and horse stables)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1903
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Nathaniel Owings, Indianapolis, architect (Oak Ridge, TN; Sears)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1904
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American occupation of Cuba ends
Type: Event
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02/05/1906
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John Carradine, Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1907
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Arnold Sch”nberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna
Type: Event
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02/05/1907
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Jan Klaasesz, Dutch governor Suriname (1949-56)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1907
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Norton Simon, business executive (Simon and Schuster)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1907
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Pierre E J Pflimlin, premier France
Type: Birth
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02/05/1907
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Ludwig Thuille, composer, dies at 45
Type: Death
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02/05/1909
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Grazyna Bacewicz, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1910
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Martha van Och-Scholl, German/Dutch resistance fighter (WW II)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1911
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Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam
Type: Event
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02/05/1911
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Petrus A Cronj‚, Transvaal Boer general, dies
Type: Death
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02/05/1912
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Willard Parker, NYC, actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1912
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Zoltan Pongracz, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1913
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Rozelle Claxton, pianist/arranger
Type: Birth
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02/05/1914
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Alan Hodgkin, British physicist (Nobel 1963)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1914
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William S Burroughs, St Louis, novelist (Naked Lunch)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1915
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Robert Hofstadter, US atomic physicist
Type: Birth
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02/05/1916
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Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Co
Type: Event
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02/05/1917
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Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration
Type: Event
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02/05/1917
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Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St NYC (demolished 1982)
Type: Event
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02/05/1917
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Present Mexican constitution adopted
Type: Event
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02/05/1917
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Zsa Zsa Gabor, [Zsa Sari], Budapest, actress (Queen of Outer Space)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1917
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Paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41
Type: Death
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02/05/1918
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1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson
Type: Event
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02/05/1918
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Separation of church and state begins in USSR
Type: Event
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02/05/1918
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Charles J "Tim" Holt, US actor (Treasure of Sierra Madre)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1918
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Kara Abulfazogli Karayev, composer
Type: Birth
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02/05/1918
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Tim Holt, Beverly Hills CA, actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1919
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NL pres John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers
Type: Event
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02/05/1919
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Andrea George Papandreou, Greek premier (1981-89, 93- )
Type: Birth
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02/05/1919
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Red Buttons, [Aaron Chwatt], Bronx NYC, comedian/actor (Sayonara)
Type: Birth
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02/05/1919
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Vasili V Rozanov, Russian philosopher/writer, dies at 62
Type: Death
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