435 Historic Events for August 10
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| 1869 |
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Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet (Symbolic Wounds)
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| 1874 |
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Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933)
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| 1874 |
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James (Tod) Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style
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| 1875 |
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Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66
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| 1876 |
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1st phone call between Brantford and Paris, Canada
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| 1877 |
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Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance
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| 1877 |
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Phillies and Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
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| 1877 |
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Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perc‚ indians
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| 1878 |
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Alfred D”blin, German/French author/co-founder of Sturm
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| 1880 |
Birth |
Clarence Cameron White, composer
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| 1881 |
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Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder
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| 1882 |
Birth |
Max Kowalski, composer
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| 1883 |
Birth |
Carlos Lavin, composer
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| 1885 |
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Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
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| 1886 |
Birth |
Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement
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| 1886 |
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Eduard Grell, composer, dies at 85
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| 1887 |
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Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
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| 1888 |
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Johanna E F G (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actress (Saint Joan)
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| 1888 |
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NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record
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| 1889 |
Birth |
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer
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| 1889 |
Birth |
Irene Steer, England, 4 X 100m relay swimmers (Olympic-gold-1912)
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| 1889 |
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Dan Rylands patents screw cap
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| 1891 |
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Henry O'Neill, Orange NJ, actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble)
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| 1893 |
Birth |
Voranc Prezikov, [Lovro Kuhar], Slovenian author (Samorastniki)
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| 1893 |
Birth |
Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia (1959-61)
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