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Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music, including Eastern European folk music, to …
Leoš Janáček, Czech composer and educator (born 1854)
Alfred Henschke, better known by his pseudonym Klabund, was a German writer.
Klabund, German author and poet (born 1890)
Anatole von Hügel was a son of an Austrian nobleman who lived in England and was curator of the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology, 1883 – 1921.
Anatole von Hügel, Italian ethnologist and academic, co-founded St Edmund's College, Cambridge (born 1854)
Stefanos Skouloudis was a Greek banker, diplomat and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Greece from 1915 to 1916.
Stefanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and diplomat, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1838)
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien was a German physicist who used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission …
Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)
Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
Italo Svevo, Italian author and playwright (born 1861)
Richard Felton Outcault was an American cartoonist. He was the creator of the series The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown and is considered a key pioneer of the modern comic strip.
Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist, created The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (born 1863)
John Devoy was an Irish republican rebel and journalist who owned and edited The Gaelic American, a New York weekly newspaper, from 1903 to 1928.
John Devoy, Irish-American Fenian rebel leader (born 1842)
Ernst Steinitz was a German mathematician.
Ernst Steinitz, German mathematician (born 1871)
Lawrence Semon was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter during the silent film era. In his day, Semon was considered a major movie comedian, but he is now rememb…
Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1889)
Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes. He also was a note…
Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (born 1853)
John Hope Peddie, commonly known as Jack or Jock Peddie, was a Scottish footballer who played for various clubs in both England and Scotland, including Newcastle United, Manchester…
Jack Peddie, Scottish footballer (born 1876)
Andrew Fisher was the fifth prime minister of Australia from 1908 to 1909, from 1910 to 1913 and from 1914 to 1915. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP)…
Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1862)
The Jinan incident or 3 May Tragedy began as a 3 May 1928 dispute between Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army (NRA) and Japanese soldiers and civilians in Jinan, the capi…
After a week-long standoff punctuated by military clashes, Japanese forces captured the city of Jinan, Shandong in China
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, nicknamed Smithy, was an Australian aviation pioneer. He piloted the first transpacific flight and the first flight between Australia and New Ze…
Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed the Southern Cross in Brisbane, completing the first tran
Wage Rudolf Supratman was an Indonesian journalist and songwriter who wrote both the lyrics and melody of the national anthem of Indonesia, "Indonesia Raya". He is an Indonesian na…
Indonesian composer Wage Rudolf Supratman introduced "Indonesia Raya", now the country's national anthem.
Ivan Borkovský was a Czech-Ukrainian archaeologist. He spent his early career as a soldier fighting for the Austro-Hungarian Army against the Russians in the First World War. He la…
Archaeologist Ivan Borkovský discovered a medieval skeleton at Prague Castle; competing factions claimed the skeleton…
Paisley is a town in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Located north of the Gleniffer Braes and immediately west of Glasgow, it straddles the banks of the White Cart Water, a tributary of th…
At a cafe in Paisley, Scotland, a woman found the remains of a snail in her bottle of ginger beer, giving rise to the…
The Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, also known as the San Felipe Segundo hurricane and Florida's Forgotten Storm, was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the N…
The Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe; eventually it reached the United States and caused…
The Nationalist government, officially the National Government of the Republic of China was the government of China from 1925 to 1948. It was established by the Kuomintang (KMT) in…
The Republic of China adopted Gwoyeu Romatzyh (designer pictured) as the official system for romanization of Mandarin…
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of…
Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming (pictured) discovered penicillin when he noticed a…
An iron lung is negative pressure ventilator and mechanical respirator which encloses most of the patient's body. The air pressure inside the enclosed space stimulates breathing. T…
The iron lung (example pictured), a type of medical ventilator, was used for the first time at the Boston Children's…
The Federal Prison Camp, Alderson is a minimum-security United States federal prison for female inmates in West Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a divisio…
The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the
Mary Jane "Mae" West was an American actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright whose career spanned more than seven decades. Recognized as a prominent sex symbol of h…
Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex