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1891 - Birth of Fanny Brice singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks).

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1894 - First election of the Hawaiian Republic.

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1897 - Birth of Hope Emerson Hawarden Iowa, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn).

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1897 - Birth of Paul Joseph Goebbels Nazi propagandist.

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1901 - Leon Czolcosz assassin of President McKinley, is executed.

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1904 - First intercity trucking service (Colorado City and Snyder, Texas).

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1906 - Birth of Fredric Brown American writer (US Army in Transition).

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1910 - Birth of Alfred J Ayer England, Neopositivist philosopher/logician.

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1910 - Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game.

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1911 - Joseph Pulitzer American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, South Carolina.

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