Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)

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Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)

Birth

Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 v Eng

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Henry B Walthall, Shelby City AL, actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike)

Birth

Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi

Birth

William Banting, English undertaker, dies

Death

Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], shah of Iran

Birth

Barnum and Bailey Circus debuts

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Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at 42

Death

US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross

Event

Charles R Darwin, English naturalist (Origin of species), dies at 73

Death

Harrison Ford, Kansas City MO, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires)

Birth

Giacomo Benvenuti, composer

Birth

Sydney Chaplin, S Afr, actor (Limelight)

Birth

Emanuel Kania, composer, dies at 59

Death

C‚sar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)

Birth

Harrison Ford, actor (Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear)

Birth

Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)

Birth

Jules Massenet's opera "Tha‹s," premieres in Paris

Event

Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"

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Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)

Birth

Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)

Event

Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23

Death

Chicago, KC, Minn, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleve and Buffalo

Event

AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in

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