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02/08/1897
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Antonio C novas del Castillo, premier of Spain, murdered at 69
Type: Death
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02/08/1898
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John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding and gumming mach (Mass)
Type: Event
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02/08/1900
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Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer
Type: Birth
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02/08/1900
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John Cameron, judge
Type: Birth
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02/08/1901
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Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Poland, women's world champion archer
Type: Birth
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02/08/1902
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Lyle Talbot, [Lysle Hollywood], Pittsburgh, actor (Glen or Glenda)
Type: Birth
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02/08/1903
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Abdulrahman, minister of Internal affairs/premier of Malaysia
Type: Birth
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02/08/1904
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Russo-Japanese War begins
Type: Event
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02/08/1904
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Igor' Fyodorovich Belza, composer
Type: Birth
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02/08/1905
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Cyclone hit Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
Type: Event
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02/08/1905
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Truman Bradley, MO, TV host (Science Fiction Theater)
Type: Birth
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02/08/1906
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Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist (Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein)
Type: Birth
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02/08/1906
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Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopy)
Type: Birth
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02/08/1906
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Henry Roth, Austria-Hungary/US writer (Call it Sleep)
Type: Birth
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02/08/1907
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Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (fasenleer), dies at 52
Type: Death
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02/08/1908
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Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert Neth
Type: Event
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02/08/1908
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Grigor Eghiazaryan, composer
Type: Birth
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02/08/1908
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Leslie Kenneth O'Brien, Lord O'Brien of Lothbury, missionary
Type: Birth
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02/08/1908
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Myron McCormick, Albany, actor (Hustler, Jolson Sings Again)
Type: Birth
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02/08/1909
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France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco
Type: Event
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02/08/1909
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Henry Roth, writer
Type: Birth
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02/08/1909
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Edouard Silas, composer, dies at 80
Type: Death
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02/08/1909
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Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, composer, dies at 32
Type: Death
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02/08/1910
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Boy Scouts of America incorporated and chartered (William D Boyce-Chic)
Type: Event
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02/08/1911
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US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Devila of Honduras
Type: Event
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02/08/1911
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Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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02/08/1911
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Anne Aitken, [nee Hopkins], Chicago, co-found (Diamond Sangha)
Type: Birth
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02/08/1911
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Elizabeth Bishop, US poet (North and South)/Pulitzer Prize (1956)
Type: Birth
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02/08/1911
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Henri Knap, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist/writer
Type: Birth
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02/08/1911
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Gustaf Fr”ding, Swedish poet (Grabst„nk), dies at 50
Type: Death
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02/08/1912
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1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
Type: Event
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02/08/1912
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Simon Jurovsky, composer
Type: Birth
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02/08/1913
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Betty Field, Boston MA, actress (Kings Row, Bus Stop)
Type: Birth
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02/08/1913
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John Grandy, Brits RAF-marshal
Type: Birth
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02/08/1914
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General Zamon becomes president of Haiti
Type: Event
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02/08/1914
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Bert Haas, baseball player
Type: Birth
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02/08/1914
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Jules van Ackere, Flemish musicologist (Eternal Music)
Type: Birth
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02/08/1915
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"Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA
Type: Event
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02/08/1915
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Lambros Georges Guetary Worloou, singer
Type: Birth
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02/08/1916
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French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
Type: Event
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02/08/1916
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NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25› seats
Type: Event
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02/08/1918
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"Stars and Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
Type: Event
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02/08/1918
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John Intoxication, resistance fighter
Type: Birth
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02/08/1918
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Lord Maxd Rayne, English broker/multi-millionaire
Type: Birth
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02/08/1919
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Buddy Morrow, orch leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
Type: Birth
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02/08/1920
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Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
Type: Event
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02/08/1920
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Buddy Blattner, baseball player
Type: Birth
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02/08/1920
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Lana Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest)
Type: Birth
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02/08/1920
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Richard Dehmel, writer, dies at 56
Type: Death
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02/08/1921
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Hoot Evers, baseball player
Type: Birth
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