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08/10/1869
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Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet (Symbolic Wounds)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1874
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Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1874
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James (Tod) Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style
Type: Birth
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08/10/1875
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Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66
Type: Death
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08/10/1876
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1st phone call between Brantford and Paris, Canada
Type: Event
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08/10/1877
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Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance
Type: Birth
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08/10/1877
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Phillies and Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
Type: Event
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08/10/1877
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Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perc‚ indians
Type: Event
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08/10/1878
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Alfred D”blin, German/French author/co-founder of Sturm
Type: Birth
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08/10/1880
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Clarence Cameron White, composer
Type: Birth
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08/10/1881
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Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder
Type: Birth
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08/10/1882
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Max Kowalski, composer
Type: Birth
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08/10/1883
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Carlos Lavin, composer
Type: Birth
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08/10/1885
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Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
Type: Event
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08/10/1886
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Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement
Type: Birth
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08/10/1886
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Eduard Grell, composer, dies at 85
Type: Death
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08/10/1887
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Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
Type: Event
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08/10/1888
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Johanna E F G (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actress (Saint Joan)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1888
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NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record
Type: Event
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08/10/1889
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Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer
Type: Birth
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08/10/1889
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Irene Steer, England, 4 X 100m relay swimmers (Olympic-gold-1912)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1889
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Dan Rylands patents screw cap
Type: Event
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08/10/1891
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Henry O'Neill, Orange NJ, actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1893
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Voranc Prezikov, [Lovro Kuhar], Slovenian author (Samorastniki)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1893
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Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia (1959-61)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1893
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Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue NY, composer (Good Night Harvard)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1893
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Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act
Type: Event
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08/10/1895
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Michail M Soschtschenko, Russian author
Type: Birth
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08/10/1895
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1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners "Rienzi")
Type: Event
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08/10/1896
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Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies
Type: Death
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08/10/1897
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Edward Orval Gourdin, Jacksonville, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1924)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1897
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Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club)
Type: Event
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08/10/1897
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Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch novelist (Ciske the Rat)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1899
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Jack Haley, Boston Mass, actor (Tin Man-Wizard of Oz, Ford Star Revue)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1900
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Arthur Porritt, NZ, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1900
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Norma Shearer, Montreal Quebec, actress (Divorcee, Idiot's Delight)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1900
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Ren‚ Crevel, French author (Mon corps et moi, D‚tours)
Type: Birth
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08/10/1900
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1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0)
Type: Event
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08/10/1901
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Chic White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
Type: Event
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08/10/1902
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George Vernon, cricketer (scored 11* and 3 in only England Test), dies
Type: Death
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08/10/1903
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Lisle, British lord
Type: Birth
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08/10/1904
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Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
Type: Event
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08/10/1904
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Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
Type: Event
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08/10/1904
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Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur
Type: Event
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08/10/1904
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Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies
Type: Death
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08/10/1904
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Yankees Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games
Type: Event
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08/10/1905
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Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged
Type: Death
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08/10/1905
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Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge
Type: Birth
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08/10/1905
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Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist
Type: Birth
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08/10/1906
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Era Bell Thompson, [Dakota Dick], US actress (Ebony)
Type: Birth
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