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Wikipedia.
Events:
February 15 - The British Labour Party is organized.
March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
March 18 - Traian Vuia flies first self-propelled heavier than air aircraft.
April 7 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 18 - 1906 San Francisco earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San
Francisco, California. The estimated magnitude of the earthquake is 7.8.
September 18 - Typhoon with tsunami killed an estimated 10.000 persons in Hong Kong.
October 11 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis
with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
November 9 - US President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the
construction progress of the Panama Canal (this was the first time a sitting President of the
United States made an official trip outside of the United States).
December 24 - Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a
violin solo, and a speech.
BCG (Bacilli-Calmette-Guerin) immunization for Tuberculosis first developed.
Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
Second Geneva Convention.
Births:
January 11 -
Albert Hofmann, chemist, discoverer of LSD.
January 14 -
William Bendix, actor (d. 1964).
January 15 -
Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipowner (d. 1975).
January 22 -
Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (d. 1936).
January 23 - Her
Serene Highness Princess May of Teck (later styled Lady May Cambridge.
January 28 -
Jeremias Gijsbregt de Zwarte.
February 1 -
Hildegarde, actress, singer.
February 2 -
Gale Gordon, actor (d. 1995).
February 4 -
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (d. 1945).
February 4 -
Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer (d. 1997).
February 5 -
John Carradine, actor (d. 1988).
February 10 -
Lon Chaney Jr., actor (d. 1973).
February 11 -
Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal.
February 28 -
Bugsy Siegel, gangster (d. 1947).
March 6 -
Lou Costello, actor, comedian (d. 1959).
March 16 -
Henny Youngman, comedian (d. 1998).
March 19 -
Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official responsible for the execution of the holocaust.
March 20 -
Ozzie Nelson, actor, band leader (d. 1975).
March 25 -
Jean Sablon, French singer (d. 1994).
March 30 -
Wilhelmina Laurina (Mina) van den Houten.
April 4 -
John Cameron Swayze, journalist, television host (d. 1995).
April 4 -
Bea Benaderet, actress (d. 1968).
April 6 -
Virginia Hall, American SOE agent, WW II heroine (d. 1982).
April 13 -
Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969.
April 28 -
Gödel, Austrian/US mathematician.
May 3 -
Anna E. Roosevelt, radio personality (d. 1975).
May 6 -
Johannes Antonius van den Houten.
May 8 -
Roberto Rossellini, director (d. 1977).
May 11 -
Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (d. 1980).
May 15 -
Adriana Bakker.
May 19 -
Gerd Bucerius, publisher and publicist (d. 1995).
May 20 -
Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, senior cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1989).
June 27 -
Catherine Cookson, author (d. 1998).
July 1 -
Estée Lauder, cosmetics pioneer (d. 2004).
July 7 -
Maatje Cornelia Padmos.
July 29 -
Diana Vreeland, fashion editor (d. 1989).
August 1 -
Cornelia Antje van de Panne.
August 5 -
Wassily Leontief, economist (d. 1999).
August 7 -
Nelson Goodman, philosopher and coiner of the term "irrealism".
August 27 -
Ed Gein, serial killer.
August 31 -
Raymond Sommer, Grand Prix motor racing driver.
September 4 -
Max Delbrück, German biologist.
September 22 -
Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration
camp Buchenwald (d. 1967).
September 25 -
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer.
September 30 -
Mireille, French singer (d. 1996).
October 14 -
Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual.
October 23 -
Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer.
October 25 -
Gijsbert Rupke.
October 30 -
Giuseppe Farina, Italian F1 driver.
November 3 -
Carl Benjamin Boyer, US historian of mathematics.
November 14 -
Louise Brooks, American dancer, actor and writer. (d. 1985).
November 16 -
Marinus van den Houten.
December 2 -
Cornelia Johanna van den Houten.
December 17 -
Simo Häyhä, most successful sniper in history.
December 27 -
Oscar Levant, pianist and actor (d. 1972).
Deaths:
January 12 -
Maria Grotenboer.
January 28 -
Johan Felix van den Houten.
January 29 -
King Christian IX of Denmark.
February 5 -
Adriana van den Houten.
February 9 -
Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet.
Febrary 25 -
Maatje van de Velde.
February 26 -
Cornelia Johanna van den Houten.
February 27 -
Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist and
aeronautics pioneer.
March 13 -
Susan Brownell Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist.
March 27 -
Krina van Splunter.
April 10 -
Anna Johanna van den Houten.
April 11 -
Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher.
April 28 -
Wilhelmina van Breugel.
May 14 -
Carl Schurz, German revolutionist and American statesman, (* 1929).
May 23 -
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright.
June 12 -
Jacobus Segers.
July 26 -
Liza van den Berge.
September 5 -
Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist.
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