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Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Rus…
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (born 1844)
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat elected president after th…
Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (born 1837)
Thomas Hill was an American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the Californian landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mou…
Thomas Hill, American painter (born 1829)
Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on …
Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (born 1845)
Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright who, together with Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Alexander Kielland, is considered one of the Four…
Jonas Lie, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (born 1833)
Phoebe Knapp was an American composer of music for hymns and an organist. She composed the music for over five hundred hymns.
Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (born 1839)
Friedrich Adolf "Fritz" Traun was a German athlete and tennis player. Born into a wealthy family, he participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in men's doubles.…
Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player (born 1876)
William David Coleman was an Americo-Liberian politician. A True Whig Party member, he served as the 13th president of Liberia from 1896 to 1900. Born in Fayette County, Kentucky, …
William D. Coleman, 13th President of Liberia (born 1842)
Demetrios Vikelas was a Greek businessman and writer; he was the co-founder and first president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1894 to 1896.
Demetrius Vikelas, Greek businessman and author, first IOC president (born 1835)
Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz was a German geophysicist who made important contributions to seismology, in particular the formulation of the Zoeppritz equations.
Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (born 1881)
Sir William Randal Cremer usually known by his middle name "Randal", was a British Liberal Member of Parliament, a pacifist, and a leading advocate for international arbitration. H…
Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1828)
Vicente Acosta was a Salvadoran poet.
Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran journalist and poet (born 1867)
Sigismondo Savona was a Maltese educator and politician who played a prominent role in the Language Question which defined the politics of the Crown Colony of Malta in the late 19t…
Sigismondo Savona, Maltese educator and politician (born 1835)
Marie Adam-Doerrer was a Swiss women's rights activist and unionist.
Marie Adam-Doerrer, Swiss women's rights activist and unionist (born 1838)
Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor, within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Owned by the U.S. government, Ellis Island was once the busiest immigrant inspectio…
The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day
Unicameralism is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one. Unicameralism has become an increasingly common type of legislature, ma…
The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session
The Isle of Man TT races are an annual motorcycle racing event held on the Isle of Man in May and June of mostly every year since its inaugural race in 1907. The two-week event is …
The first Isle of Man TT race is held
The National Association for Women's Suffrage was a Norwegian association for women suffrage, active from 1898 until 1913. It was founded by members of the Norwegian Association fo…
The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary ele
The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Hertfordshire in England. It is …
The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens
Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Pa…
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
SS Columbia (1880–1907) was a cargo and passenger steamship that was owned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and later the San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company. …
The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove,…
Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout…
Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The…
Joseph-Armand Bombardier was a Canadian inventor and businessman who was the founder of Bombardier. His most famous invention was a snowmobile.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc
August Eigruber was an Austrian-born Nazi Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Oberdonau and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria. He was convicted of war crimes at Mauthausen-…
August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician (died 1947)