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1892 - Birth of Hilding Rosenberg Bosjökloster Sweden, composer (Babels Torn).

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1892 - Birth of Reinhold Niebuhr US, theologian (Nature and Destiny of Man).

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1893 - First Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition).

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1894 - Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company.

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1900 - Brooklyn Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Philadelphia Phillies, 20-13, In.

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1903 - Birth of Al Hirschfeld cartoonist (1975 Tony Award).

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1903 - Birth of Dorothy Stickney actress (And So They Were Married).

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1904 - Boston Herald tells of Boston Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," first.

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1905 - Birth of Jean-Paul Sartre France, philosopher/writer (Nobel Prize 1964; declined).

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1912 - Birth of Mary McCarthy US, novelist (Group).

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