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Wikipedia.
Events:
January 5 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and
sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
February 14 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest
(St. James' Theatre in London).
April 6 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas,
9th Marquess of Queensberry.
April 14 - a major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, Slovenia.
May 25 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "sodomy and gross
indecency" and sentenced to serve two years in a London prison.
August 19 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an
off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
September 3 - The first professional football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania,
between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.).
November 5 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
November 8 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
November 27 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will
and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies (he died of
a cerebral hemorrhage on December 10, 1896).
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator.
Last major earthquake in the New Madrid Fault Zone.
Births:
January 1 -
J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director.
January 7 -
Johannes Jeremias Zweerus.
January 12 -
Willem Kasper Roos.
January 19 -
Jacobus van den Houten.
January 20 -
Maria Boogaard.
January 20 -
George Burns, actor, comedian (d. 1996).
January 21 -
Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish-French couturier (d. 1972).
January 24 -
Eugen Roth, lyricist and narrator (d. 1976).
January 30 -
Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi party leader( d. 1936).
February 2 -
George Halas, American football player, coach, co-founder of the
National Football League (d. 1983).
February 6 -
Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1948).
February 8 -
King Vidor, director (d. 1982).
February 11 -
Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer.
February 14 -
Max Horkheimer, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973).
February 15 -
Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete.
February 21 -
Henrik Carl Peter Dam, Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976).
March 3 -
Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, United States
Army Chief of Staff.
March 17 -
Shemp Howard, actor ("The Three Stooges") (d. 1955).
March 20 -
Robert Benoist, Grand Prix motor racing driver/war hero.
March 21 -
Johanna van den Houten.
March 22 -
Paulus Johannes Morijn.
March 29 -
Ernst Jünger, author (d. 1998).
March 30 -
Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1975).
April 1 -
Alberta Hunter, singer (d. 1984).
April 9 -
Mance Lipscomb, popular singer.
April 20 -
Emile Christian, jazz musician (d. 1973).
April 26 -
Nathaniel Kleitman, sleep researcher (d. 1999).
May 3 -
Cornelia Maria van den Houten.
May 6 -
Rodolfo Valentino, Italian actor.
May 8 -
Fulton J. Sheen, bishop, television personality (d. 1979).
May 9 -
Richard Bathelmess, actor (d. 1963).
May 31 -
Jacoba Maria van den Houten.
June 11 -
Herman Hugo Max van den Houten.
June 22 -
Willem Bastiaan van den Houten.
July 10 -
Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982).
July 12 -
Buckminster Fuller, American architect.
July 13 -
Pieternella Lokker.
July 14 -
Nicolaas van den Houten.
July 15 -
Minnie Arnoldi.
July 15 -
Josina Arnoldi.
July 24 -
Antje Barbier.
August 10 -
Eleanor Letitia Mahony.
September 6 -
Hendrik Peter de Bie.
September 11 -
Vinoba Bhave.
September 28 -
Louis Pasteur, French chemist.
September 30 -
Floris van den Houten.
October 2 -
Bud Abbott, actor.
October 4 -
Buster Keaton, American actor and film director.
October 8 -
Ahmet Zog, King of Albania.
October 13 -
Pieternella Schouls.
October 14 -
Marina in den Bosch.
October 19 -
Lewis Mumford, historian.
October 21 -
Edna Purviance, actress.
October 23 -
Margaret Catherina Troast.
October 25 -
Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969).
November 1 -
Wilhelmina Cornelia Pieternella van Dijl.
November 14 -
Pieter Ribbens.
November 16 -
Paul Hindemith, German composer.
November 17 -
Margaretha van den Houten.
November 19 -
Paul Lyman Troast.
December 2 -
Harriet Cohen, pianist (d. 1967).
December 10 -
Pieternella van den Houten.
December 10 -
Leentje van den Houten.
December 14 - King
George VI of the United Kingdom.
December 19 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
December 24 -
Jannetje van den Houten.
Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, later Yang di-Pertuan Besar
of Negeri Sembilan and 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
William van den Houten.
Deaths:
February 8 -
Tona Berman.
February 20 -
Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and author.
March 2 -
Berthe Morisot, Impressionist Painter.
March 5 -
Willemina van den Houten.
March 10 -
Charles Frederick Worth, couturier.
April 27 -
Trijntje van Es.
May 19 -
Jose Marti, Cuban independence leader (Dos Rios).
May 21 -
Franz von Suppé, composer.
June 29 - Sir
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist.
July 4 -
Willemina (Guillemine) Evertse.
July 19 -
Minnie Arnoldi.
October 25 -
Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor.
October 29 -
Lena van den Houten.
November 15 -
Jacob van den Houten.
November 27 -
Alexandre Dumas, fils, author, playwright.
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