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Enrico De Nicola was an Italian jurist, journalist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of Italy in 1948 and provisional head of state of republican Italy f…
Enrico De Nicola, Italian journalist, lawyer, politician, and first President of Italy (born 1877)
Tochigiyama Moriya was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 27th yokozuna from 1918 until 1925. Generally he is considered one of the pioneers of modern sumo.…
Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (born 1892)
Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Caracciola was a German racing driver. He won the European Drivers' Championship, the pre-1950 equivalent of the modern Formula One World Championship, an unsur…
Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (born 1901)
Bernard Berenson was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book The Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thou…
Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (born 1865)
Mario Lanza was an American tenor and actor. He was a Hollywood film star popular in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Lanza began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16…
Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (born 1921)
Shirō Ishii was a Japanese biological weapons specialist, microbiologist and army medical officer who served as the director of Unit 731, the largest biological warfare and chemic…
Shirō Ishii, Japanese general and biologist (born 1892)
John Andrew Davey, known as Jack Davey, was a New Zealand-born singer and pioneering star of Australian radio as a performer, producer, writer and host from the early 1930s into th…
Jack Davey, New Zealand-Australian singer and radio host (born 1907)
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian and American actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles, fr…
Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (born 1909)
Stepan Andriiovych Bandera was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B.
Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (born 1909)
Lipót Fejér was a Hungarian mathematician.
Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (born 1880)
Minor Hall, better known as Ram Hall, was an American jazz drummer active on the New Orleans jazz scene. He was the younger brother of Tubby Hall.
Minor Hall, American drummer (born 1897)
Ahmed Boughera El Ouafi was a French Algerian marathon runner who represented France at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics, winning gold in the latter. He was largely unacknowledged…
Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (born 1903)
George Bouzianis was a major Greek expressionist painter.
George Bouzianis, Greek painter (born 1885)
Gerda Carola Cecilia Lundequist was a Swedish stage actress, an Ibsen and Strindberg-thespian that in her time was known throughout Scandinavia as "The Swedish Sarah Bernhardt".
Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (born 1871)
General of the Army George Catlett Marshall Jr. was an American military officer and diplomat. He rose through the United States Army to become Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army unde…
George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (born…
John Joseph Cahill, also known as Joe Cahill or J. J. Cahill, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, railway worker, trade unionist and Labor Party Premier of New South Wal…
Joseph Cahill, Australian politician, 29th Premier of New South Wales (born 1891)
Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán was a Cuban revolutionary. One of the major figures of the Cuban Revolution, he was considered second only to Fidel Castro among the revolutionary leade…
Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier (born 1932)
The Tritons’ Fountain is a fountain located in Floriana, Malta. It consists of three bronze Tritons holding up a large basin, balanced on a concentric base built out of concrete an…
The Tritons' Fountain in Valletta, one of Malta's most important Modernist landmarks, was turned on for the first time
The Auckland Harbour Bridge is an eight-lane motorway bridge over Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. It joins St Marys Bay on the Auckland city side with Northcote on the …
The Auckland Harbour Bridge, spanning Waitematā Harbour between the Saint Marys Bay and Northcote suburbs of Auckland, N
The Auckland Harbour Bridge is an eight-lane motorway bridge over Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. It joins St Marys Bay on the Auckland city side with Northcote on the …
The Auckland Harbour Bridge officially opened, connecting the suburbs of Saint Marys Bay and Northcote in Auckland, New
Abdul Muis, was an Indonesian writer, journalist and nationalist. He advocated for Indonesia's independence from the Netherlands. He was the first person to be named an Indonesian …
Writer and politician Abdul Muis became the first person to be awarded the posthumous title of National Hero of…
Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones are low-pressure areas which, along with anticyclones, drive the weather over much of the mid-latitu…
The extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the Gulf of St
B. Anthony Stewart was an American photographer with National Geographic. Stewart is known for having the first image featured on the cover of the magazine, that of the 49-star fla…
B. Anthony Stewart is credited with the first image on the cover of National Geographic featuring the 49-star flag of…
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a mathematical olympiad for pre-university students, and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. It is widely regarde…
The inaugural International Mathematical Olympiad, the leading mathematical competition for pre-university students,…