| 1 | 1.8.1498 | Event | Christopher Columbus reached the mainland of North America |
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| 2 | 28.10.1636 | Event | Americas oldest university,'Havard',was founded |
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| 3 | 5.4.1649 | Birthday | Elihu Yale, Founder of American Yale University |
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| 4 | 17.1.1706 | Birthday | Benjamin Franklin, American statesman & scientist |
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| 5 | 11.5.1709 | Event | Large numbers of Germans began emigrating to North America |
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| 6 | 27.9.1722 | Birthday | Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader |
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| 7 | 2.11.1734 | Birthday | Daniel Boone, Legendary American frontiersman |
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| 8 | 30.10.1735 | Birthday | John Adams, 2nd American President |
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| 9 | 29.2.1736 | Birthday | Ann Lee, Founder of the American Society of Shakers |
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| 10 | 14.1.1741 | Birthday | Benedict Arnold, American traitor |
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| 11 | 13.4.1743 | Birthday | Thomas Jefferson, Former American President |
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| 12 | 16.3.1751 | Birthday | James Madison, Former (4th) American President |
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| 13 | 28.4.1758 | Birthday | James Monroe, Former (5th) American President |
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| 14 | 11.7.1767 | Birthday | John Quincy Adams, Former (6th) American President |
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| 15 | 30.3.1775 | Event | The British Parliament passed an act that meant that American colonies could only trade with Britain |
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| 16 | 18.4.1775 | Event | The American War of Independence, against the British, began |
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| 17 | 19.4.1775 | Event | The American War of Independence, against the British, began |
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| 18 | 1.3.1780 | Event | Pennsylvania became the first American state to abolish slavery |
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| 19 | 19.10.1781 | Event | The American War of Independence ended, with the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to George Washington at Yorktown, USA |
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| 20 | 3.9.1783 | Event | The American 'War of Independence' came to an end, when Britain signed a treaty in Paris |
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| 21 | 26.4.1785 | Birthday | John James Audubon, American naturalist painter |
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| 22 | 6.7.1785 | Birthday | John Paul Jones, American War of Independence hero |
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| 23 | 17.9.1787 | Event | The Constitution of the United States of America was signed |
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| 24 | 26.11.1789 | Event | The first national thanksgiving day was celebrated in America, to mark the 1621 harvest of the Pilgrim Fathers |
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| 25 | 29.3.1790 | Birthday | John Tyler, Former American President |
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| 26 | 29.2.1792 | Birthday | John Holland, American inventor of the submarine |
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| 27 | 25.5.1803 | Birthday | Ralph W. Emerson, American poet |
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| 28 | 31.7.1803 | Birthday | John Ericsson, American naval engineer |
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| 29 | 4.7.1804 | Birthday | Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author |
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| 30 | 23.12.1805 | Birthday | Joseph Smith, American Mormon leader |
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| 31 | 19.1.1807 | Birthday | Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general |
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| 32 | 27.2.1807 | Birthday | Henry Longfellow, American poet |
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| 33 | 19.1.1809 | Birthday | Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet |
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| 34 | 4.6.1811 | Birthday | Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist |
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| 35 | 24.12.1814 | Event | The war between America & Britain ended with the signing of a peace treaty, in Ghent |
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| 36 | 1.8.1815 | Birthday | Richard Henry Dana, American novelist |
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| 37 | 9.7.1816 | Event | Argentina, in South America, declared its independence from Spain |
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| 38 | 12.7.1817 | Birthday | Henry Thoreau, American author |
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| 39 | 11.2.1818 | Event | The South American country of Chilie proclaimed its independance |
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| 40 | 12.2.1818 | Event | The South American country of Chilie became independent |
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| 41 | 14.2.1819 | Birthday | Christopher Sholes, American inventor of the typewriter |
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| 42 | 31.5.1819 | Birthday | Walt Whitman, American poet |
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| 43 | 27.4.1822 | Birthday | Ulysses S.Grant, Former (18th) American President |
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| 44 | 21.1.1824 | Birthday | Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, American general |
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| 45 | 5.10.1830 | Birthday | Chester Arthur, Former (21st) American President |
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| 46 | 10.12.1830 | Birthday | Emily Dickinson, American poet |
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| 47 | 29.11.1832 | Birthday | Louisa M.Alcott, American author of 'Little Women' |
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| 48 | 25.11.1835 | Birthday | Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist; devoted much of his wealth |
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| 49 | 30.11.1835 | Birthday | Mark Twain, American author of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' |
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| 50 | 8.7.1839 | Birthday | John D. Rockerfeller, American multi-millionaire |
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| 51 | 28.8.1840 | Birthday | Ira Sankey, American Hymn writer |
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| 52 | 15.4.1843 | Birthday | Henry James, American novelist |
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| 53 | 11.10.1844 | Birthday | Henry John Heinz, American food manufacturer |
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| 54 | 26.2.1846 | Birthday | William Cody, 'Buffalo Bill', the American showman |
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| 55 | 11.2.1847 | Birthday | Thomas Edison, American inventor; lightbulb, phonograph etc |
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| 56 | 10.4.1847 | Birthday | Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper owner |
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| 57 | 5.9.1847 | Birthday | Jesse James, American outlaw of the Wild West |
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| 58 | 19.3.1848 | Birthday | Wyatt Earp, American Lawman |
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| 59 | 18.3.1850 | Event | The American Express company was formed in Buffalo, New York |
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| 60 | 12.7.1854 | Birthday | George Eastman, American pioneer in photography |
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| 61 | 6.11.1854 | Birthday | John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor |
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| 62 | 13.3.1855 | Birthday | Percival Lowell, American astronomer |
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| 63 | 6.5.1856 | Birthday | Robert Peary, American Artic explorer |
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| 64 | 15.9.1857 | Birthday | William Taft, Former (27th) American President |
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| 65 | 15.10.1858 | Birthday | John L Sullivan, American heavyweight boxing champion |
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| 66 | 28.11.1859 | Event | Washington Irving, the American author of 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' & 'Rip Van Winkle', died |
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| 67 | 6.9.1860 | Birthday | Jane Addams, American sociologist |
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| 68 | 20.12.1860 | Event | South Carolina seceded from the American Union, and joined the Confederacy |
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| 69 | 12.4.1861 | Event | The American Civil War began between the Union & Confederate states |
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| 70 | 29.6.1861 | Birthday | William James Mayo, American physician |
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| 71 | 10.1.1862 | Event | Samuel Colt, the American inventor of the Colt revolver, died |
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| 72 | 9.3.1862 | Event | The first battle between iron clad warships took place, during the American Civil War |
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| 73 | 22.9.1862 | Event | Abrahan Lincoln, the US President, ordered American slaves to be freed |
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| 74 | 3.7.1863 | Event | The battle of Gettysberg, during the American Civil War, ended |
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| 75 | 30.7.1863 | Birthday | Henry Ford, American car manufacturer |
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| 76 | 30.7.1863 | Birthday | Henry Ford, American car manufacturer |
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| 77 | 19.11.1863 | Event | US President Abraham Lincoln, delivered the famous 'Gettysburg' address, after the American Civil War ended |
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| 78 | 8.12.1863 | Event | Boxer Tom King of England beat American John Heenan, to become the first heavyweight champion of the world |
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| 79 | 29.11.1864 | Event | 1,200 American troops attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapho indians who had surrended |
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| 80 | 9.4.1865 | Event | The American Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate forces |
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| 81 | 15.4.1865 | Event | The American president Abraham Lincoln was assassinated |
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| 82 | 26.5.1865 | Event | The American Civil War effectively ended with surrender of the last Confederate force |
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| 83 | 18.12.1865 | Event | Slavery was abolished throughout America |
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| 84 | 6.4.1866 | Birthday | Butch Cassidy, American 'Wild West' outlaw |
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| 85 | 30.3.1867 | Event | Alaska was purchased from Russia for 7.2 million dollars, by America |
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| 86 | 16.4.1867 | Birthday | Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer |
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| 87 | 29.6.1868 | Birthday | George Hale, American astronomer |
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| 88 | 21.3.1869 | Birthday | Florenz Ziegfield, American impresario |
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| 89 | 1.11.1871 | Birthday | Stephen Crane, American novelist |
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| 90 | 7.1.1873 | Birthday | Adolph Zukor, American film producer |
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| 91 | 22.1.1875 | Birthday | D.W Griffith, American film director/producer |
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| 92 | 1.9.1875 | Birthday | Edgar Rice Burroughs, American novelist |
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| 93 | 12.1.1876 | Birthday | Jack London, American author |
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| 94 | 28.4.1878 | Birthday | Lionel Barrymore, American actor |
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| 95 | 20.9.1878 | Birthday | Upton Sinclair, American novelist |
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| 96 | 27.2.1879 | Event | Two American chemists announced the discovery of saccharin |
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| 97 | 5.7.1879 | Birthday | Dwight Davis, American statesman |
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| 98 | 4.11.1879 | Birthday | Will Rogers, American actor and humorist |
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| 99 | 26.1.1880 | Birthday | Douglas MacArthur, American wartime general |
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| 100 | 11.5.1880 | Birthday | Irving Berlin, American composer |
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| 101 | 27.6.1880 | Birthday | Helen Keller, American author |
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| 102 | 24.7.1880 | Birthday | Ernst Bloch, American composer born in Switzerland |
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| 103 | 4.7.1881 | Event | Billy The Kid, the American outlaw, was shot and killed |
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| 104 | 30.1.1882 | Birthday | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Former (32nd) American President |
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| 105 | 3.4.1882 | Event | Jesse James, the American outlaw, was shot in the back by a former friend, Robert Ford |
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| 106 | 23.2.1883 | Birthday | Victor Flemming, American film director of 'Wizard of OZ' |
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| 107 | 1.4.1883 | Birthday | Lon Chaney, American actor (played the Wolfman) |
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| 108 | 18.5.1883 | Birthday | Walter Gropius, American architect |
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| 109 | 23.5.1883 | Birthday | Douglas Fairbanks Snr, American film star |
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| 110 | 13.1.1884 | Birthday | Sophie Tucker, American singer & entertainer |
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| 111 | 8.4.1884 | Birthday | Harry S.Truman, Former American President |
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| 112 | 15.6.1884 | Birthday | Harry Langdon, American silent film star |
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| 113 | 20.9.1885 | Birthday | Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist and composer |
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| 114 | 30.10.1885 | Birthday | Ezra Pound, American poet |
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| 115 | 2.12.1885 | Birthday | Dr George R Minot, American discoverer of a treatment for anaemia |
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| 116 | 13.2.1886 | Event | The American James Younger gang robbed its first bank in Missouri |
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| 117 | 26.5.1886 | Birthday | Al Jolson, American singer |
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| 118 | 9.12.1886 | Birthday | Clarence Birdseye, American inventor, of the deep frozen food process |
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| 119 | 24.3.1887 | Birthday | Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor |
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| 120 | 23.7.1888 | Birthday | Raymond Chandler, American author |
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| 121 | 16.10.1888 | Birthday | Eugene O'Neill, American playwright and Nobel prize winner for literature |
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| 122 | 17.7.1889 | Birthday | Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist |
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| 123 | 20.8.1890 | Birthday | H.P Lovecraft, American writer |
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| 124 | 7.4.1891 | Event | Phineas T. Barnum, the American showman, died |
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| 125 | 29.10.1891 | Birthday | Fanny Brice, American 'Broadway' star |
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| 126 | 26.6.1892 | Birthday | Pearl Buck, American novelist |
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| 127 | 17.8.1892 | Birthday | Mae West, American film actress |
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| 128 | 15.12.1892 | Birthday | John Paul Getty, American multi-millionaire and oil tycoon |
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| 129 | 8.4.1893 | Birthday | Mary Pickford, American film actress |
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| 130 | 20.4.1893 | Birthday | Harold Lloyd, American silent film star |
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| 131 | 9.6.1893 | Birthday | Cole Porter, American composer of musicals |
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| 132 | 22.8.1893 | Birthday | Dorothy Parker, American writer and humorist |
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| 133 | 12.12.1893 | Birthday | Edward G. Robinson, American actor; ('Scarface','Little Caesar' & Key Largo') |
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| 134 | 14.2.1894 | Birthday | Jack Benny, American comedian and film actor |
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| 135 | 25.7.1894 | Birthday | Walter Brennan, American film actor/Oscar winner |
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| 136 | 14.10.1894 | Birthday | E.E Cummings, American poet |
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| 137 | 8.12.1894 | Birthday | James Thurber, American writer, humorist and cartoonist |
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| 138 | 1.1.1895 | Birthday | J. Edgar Hoover, Former head of American F.B.I |
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| 139 | 1.2.1895 | Birthday | John Ford, American film director; 'Stage Coach' |
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| 140 | 12.7.1895 | Birthday | Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist |
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| 141 | 29.11.1895 | Birthday | Busby Berkeley , American director and choreographer |
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| 142 | 20.1.1896 | Birthday | George Burns, American comedian |
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| 143 | 10.5.1896 | Event | The American transcontinental railroad was completed |
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| 144 | 30.5.1896 | Birthday | Howard Hawks, American film director |
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| 145 | 30.6.1896 | Birthday | Howard Hawks, American film director |
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| 146 | 24.9.1896 | Birthday | F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist of 'The Great Gatsby' |
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| 147 | 6.12.1896 | Birthday | Ira Gershwin, American lyricist; with brother George |
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| 148 | 27.3.1897 | Birthday | Gloria Swanson, American stage and film actress |
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| 149 | 9.4.1898 | Birthday | Paul Robeson, American actor and singer |
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| 150 | 7.6.1898 | Event | The Social Democratic Party of America held its first convention |
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| 151 | 24.7.1898 | Birthday | Emelia Earhart, American aviator; disappeared over the Pacific |
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| 152 | 23.9.1898 | Birthday | Walter Pidgeon, American film actor |
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| 153 | 26.9.1898 | Birthday | George Gershwin, American composer |
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| 154 | 18.10.1898 | Event | Puerto Rico was formerly taken over by America, from the Spanish |
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| 155 | 17.1.1899 | Birthday | Al Capone, American gangster |
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| 156 | 17.7.1899 | Birthday | James Cagney, American film actor |
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| 157 | 25.12.1899 | Birthday | Humphrey Bogart, American film actor |
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| 158 | 5.4.1900 | Birthday | Spencer Tracey, American film star |
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| 159 | 4.7.1900 | Birthday | Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter |
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| 160 | 8.11.1900 | Birthday | Margaret Mitchell, American author of 'Gone With The Wind' |
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| 161 | 14.11.1900 | Birthday | Aaron Copland, American composer |
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| 162 | 13.3.1901 | Event | American President Benjamin Harrison died |
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| 163 | 7.5.1901 | Birthday | Gary Cooper, American film actor |
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| 164 | 29.6.1901 | Birthday | Nelson Eddy, American singer & actor |
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| 165 | 28.7.1901 | Birthday | Rudy Valee, American singer |
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| 166 | 29.9.1901 | Birthday | Enrico Fermi, American nuclear physicist |
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| 167 | 18.11.1901 | Birthday | George Gallup, American deviser of the 'Gallup' opinion poll |
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| 168 | 4.2.1902 | Birthday | Charles Lindberg, American pilot, first person to fly the Atlantic solo |
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| 169 | 10.5.1902 | Birthday | David O Selznick, American film producer |
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| 170 | 19.8.1902 | Birthday | Ogden Nash, American humorist |
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| 171 | 5.9.1902 | Birthday | Daryl F. Zanuck, American film producer |
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| 172 | 23.1.1903 | Birthday | Randolph Scott, American film actor |
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| 173 | 26.2.1903 | Event | Richard Gatling, the American inventor of the Gatling gun, died |
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| 174 | 2.6.1903 | Birthday | Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer & 'Tarzan' |
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| 175 | 18.1.1904 | Birthday | Cary Grant, American Hollywood film actor |
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| 176 | 1.3.1904 | Birthday | Glenn Miller, American bandleader |
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| 177 | 2.5.1904 | Birthday | Bing Crosby, American actor & singer |
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| 178 | 4.5.1904 | Event | Work began on the Panama Canal, Central America |
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| 179 | 21.5.1904 | Birthday | Fats Waller, American musician |
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| 180 | 26.6.1904 | Birthday | Peter Lorre, American film actor |
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| 181 | 16.5.1905 | Birthday | Henry Fonda, American oscar winning film actor |
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| 182 | 24.12.1905 | Birthday | Howard Hughes, American tycoon, film director, pilot & aircraft builder |
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| 183 | 5.2.1906 | Birthday | John Carradine, Character actor in American films |
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| 184 | 5.8.1906 | Birthday | John Huston, American film director |
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| 185 | 2.12.1906 | Birthday | Peter Carl Goldmark, American inventor of the long playing record |
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| 186 | 3.1.1907 | Birthday | Ray Milland, American film actor |
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| 187 | 3.2.1907 | Birthday | James Michener, American author 'The Fires of Spring' |
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| 188 | 26.5.1907 | Birthday | John Wayne, American actor who made many westerns |
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| 189 | 16.7.1907 | Birthday | Barbra Stanwick, American film actress |
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| 190 | 15.1.1908 | Birthday | Edward Teller, American nuclear physicist |
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| 191 | 5.4.1908 | Birthday | Bette Davis, American actress & film star |
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| 192 | 20.5.1908 | Birthday | James Stewart, American film actor |
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| 193 | 30.8.1908 | Birthday | Fred MacMurray, American film actor |
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| 194 | 14.1.1909 | Birthday | Joseph Losey, American film director |
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| 195 | 16.1.1909 | Birthday | Ethel Merman, American singer and actress |
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| 196 | 17.2.1909 | Event | Geronimo, the American indian Apache leader, died |
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| 197 | 28.2.1909 | Birthday | Linus Pauling, American chemist & physicist |
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| 198 | 15.3.1909 | Event | G.S Selfridge, the American tycoon, opened his first store in London |
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| 199 | 6.4.1909 | Event | The North Pole was reached for the first time, by American Robert Peary |
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| 200 | 30.5.1909 | Birthday | Benny Goodman, American bandleader |
