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| | The first gramaphone record is released by Gramaphone and Typewriter Ltd., Belagatchia. Bhai Vir Singh's Panjabi novel is published. | | The first gramaphone record is released by Gramaphone and Typewriter Ltd., Belagatchia. Bhai Vir Singh's Panjabi novel is published. |
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| − | Two Italians, [[Colorello and Cornaglia]] organise [[films shows in tents at Azad Maidan]], Bombay. [[Hiralal Sen]] starts making films. [[Amritlal Bose]] screens a packet of 'actualities' and 'fakes' at the Star Theatre, Calcutta, with plays and variety entertainments. The multinational Warwick Trading Co. commissions Panorama of Calcutta newsreel. Other films include [[Poona Races]] and [[Train Arriving at Churchgate station]] ( by Andersonoscograph). | + | Two Italians, [[Colorello and Cornaglia]] organise [[films shows in tents at Azad Maidan]], Bombay. [[Hiralal Sen]] starts making films. [[Amritlal Bose]] screens a packet of 'actualities' and 'fakes' at the Star Theatre, Calcutta, with plays and variety entertainments. The multinational Warwick Trading Co. commissions Panorama of Calcutta newsreel. Other films include [[Poona Races]] and [[Train Arriving at Churchgate station]] |
| | + | ( by Andersonoscograph). |
| | + | [[Miss Nelie Mountcastle's Serpentine and Rainbow Dance]] |
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| | [[memoranda from 1898]]- raja ravi varma's diaries- how the plague in bombay affected their plans | | [[memoranda from 1898]]- raja ravi varma's diaries- how the plague in bombay affected their plans |
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| | + | The mismanagement of plague had stoked the fire of Tilak'a nationalist movement, stirring labour unrest. |
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| | + | Edward Muyrbridge constructs the first device for sequential photography. A long shed was built alongside a track and was fitted by twelve Scovill plate cameras placed side by side, and it wa a matter of chance which phase of the horse's movement was captured when the shutter was fired. Muybridge was still using wet plates as news of hte gelatin?? dry plates ahd not made ?? Amercia. |
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| − | '''1898''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCXCVIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] (see link for calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the 12-day-slower [[Julian calendar]]).
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| − | === January ===
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[New York City]] annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: [[Manhattan]], [[Brooklyn]], [[Queens]], [[The Bronx]], and [[Staten Island]].
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| − | * [[January 13]] - [[Emile Zola]]'s ''J'accuse'' exposes the [[Dreyfus affair]].
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| − | === February ===
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| − | * [[February 7]] - [[Emile Zola]] is brought to trial for [[libel]] for publishing ''[[J'Accuse]]''
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| − | * [[February 12]] - Henry Lindfield, dies in [[England]]. Lindfield was the first fatality from an automobile accident.
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| − | * [[February 15]] - [[Spanish-American War]]: The [[USS Maine|USS ''Maine'']] explodes and sinks in [[Havana Harbor]], [[Cuba]] for then unknown reasons killing more than 260. This event helped lead the [[United States]] to declare war on [[Spain]].
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| − | * [[February 23]] - [[Emile Zola]] is imprisoned in [[France]] after writing "[[J'accuse]]" which was a letter accusing the French government of [[anti-Semitism]] and wrongfully placing [[Alfred Dreyfus]] in jail.
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| − | * [[March 24]] - Robert Allison of [[Port Carbon, Pennsylvania]] becomes the first person to buy an American-built [[automobile]] when he buys a [[Winton automobile]] that was advertised in ''[[Scientific American]]''.
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| − | * [[March 26]] - The [[Sabi Game Reserve]] in [[South Africa]], the first officially designated [[game reserve]]
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| − | * [[April 22]] - [[Spanish-American War]]: The [[United States Navy]] begins a [[blockade]] of [[Cuba]]n ports and the [[USS Nashville]] captures a [[Spain | Spanish]] merchant ship.
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| − | * [[April 25]] - Spanish-American War: The [[United States]] declares war on [[Spain]]; the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] announces that a state of war has existed since [[April 21]] (later backdating one more day to [[April 20]]).
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| − | === May ===
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| − | * [[May 2]] - Association of thousands of [[China|Chinese]] scholars and [[Beijing]] citizens in front of the [[Capital Control]] [[Chinese yuan|Yuan]] asking for reform.
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| − | * [[May 7]] - [[General]] [[Bava-Beccaris]] killed 80 demonstrants in [[Milan]], [[Italy]] shooting on a rally; [[King of Italy]] [[Umberto I of Italy|Umberto I]] will be killed two years after to avenge this shooting.
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| − | * [[May 8]] - The first games of the [[Italian Football League]] are played.
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| − | === June ===
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| − | [[Image:Philippines_flag_original.png|thumb|250px|This is a depiction of the original flag of the Philippines as it was conceived by Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. The blue was of a lighter shade than the currently mandated royal blue, the sun had many more rays although it still had eight points, and it has a mythical face.]]
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| − | * [[June 1]] - The [[Trans-Mississippi Exposition (1898)|Trans-Mississippi Exposition]] [[World's Fair]] opens in [[Omaha, Nebraska]].
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| − | * [[June 12]] - [[Philippine Declaration of Independence]]: General [[Emilio Aguinaldo]] declares the [[Philippines]]' independence from [[Spain]].
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| − | * [[June 13]] - [[Yukon|Yukon Territory]] is formed, with [[Dawson, Yukon|Dawson]] chosen as its capital.
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| − | * [[June 17]] - The [[Navy Hospital Corps]] is established.
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| − | === July ===
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| − | * [[July 3]] - [[Joshua Slocum]] completes a 3-year solo [[circumnavigation]]
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| − | * [[July 7]] - The [[United States]] annexes the [[Hawaii|Hawaiian Islands]].
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| − | * [[July 17]] - [[Spanish-American War]]: [[Battle of Santiago Bay]] - Troops under [[United States]] General [[William R. Shafter]] take the city of [[Santiago de Cuba]] from the [[Spain | Spanish]].
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| − | * [[July 25]] - Spanish-American War: The [[United States]] invasion of [[Puerto Rico]] begins with a landing at [[Guánica, Puerto Rico|Guánica Bay]].
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| − | === August===
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| − | * [[August 12]]- [[Spanish-American War]]: Hostilities end between American and Spanish forces in Cuba.
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| − | * [[August 28]]- Caleb Bradham names his soft drink [[Pepsi-Cola]].
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| − | === September ===
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| − | * [[September 2]] - [[Battle of Omdurman]] - British and Egyptian troops led by [[Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum|Horatio Kitchener]] defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by [[Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi]], thus establishing British dominance in the [[Sudan]].
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| − | * [[September 10]] - [[Luigi Lucheni]] assassinates Empress [[Elizabeth of Austria]]-Hungary
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| − | * [[September 21]] - [[Empress Dowager Cixi]] of [[China]] engineered a [[coup d'etat]] and it marks the end of [[Hundred Days' Reform]]. [[Guangxu Emperor]] was arrested.
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| − | === October ===
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| − | * [[October 1]] - The [[Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration]] is founded under the name ''k.u.k. Exportakademie''.
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| − | * [[October 6]] - First meeting and founding of [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]] Fraternity, then called the Sinfonia Club, at the [[New England Conservatory]] in [[Boston]].
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| − | === December ===
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| − | * [[December 10]] - The Treaty of Peace ending the [[Spanish-American War]] is signed in [[Paris]].
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| − | * [[December]] 26 ? [[Maria Sklodowska-Curie|Marie]] and [[Pierre Curie]] discover [[radium]]
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| − | * [[Fashoda incident]] -- diplomatic dispute between [[France]] and the [[United Kingdom]].
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| − | * [[John Henry Patterson (author)|John Henry Patterson]] kills the man-eating [[lion]]s of [[Tsavo]] which were delaying the building of the [[Uganda Railway]] as described in the book "[[The Man-Eaters of Tsavo]]"
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| − | * Exploits of [[Louis de Rougemont]] begin to appear in the ''[[Wide World Magazine]]''
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| − | * [[North Petherton]] becomes the first town in [[England]] to install [[Acetylene]] lighting.
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| − | * [[John Jacob Abel]] isolates [[epinephrine]] ([[adrenaline]]).
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| − | * [[William Ramsay]] and [[Morris Travers]] discover [[neon]]
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| − | ==Births==
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| − | ===January to March===
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| − | *[[January 16]] - [[Margaret Booth]], American film editor (d. [[2002]])
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| − | *[[January 21]] - [[Ahmad Shah Qajar]], [[Shah of Persia]] (d. [[1930]])
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| − | *[[January 23]] - [[Sergei Eisenstein]], Russian film director (d. [[1948]])
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| − | *[[January 23]] - [[Jorge Eliécer Gaitán]], Colombian politician (d. [[1948]])
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| − | *[[February 1]] - [[Leila Denmark]], US-American pediatrician
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| − | *[[February 3]] - [[Alvar Aalto]], Finnish architect (d. [[1976]])
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| − | *[[February 10]] - [[Bertolt Brecht]], German writer (d. [[1956]])
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| − | *[[February 14]] - [[Fritz Zwicky]], Swiss physicist and astronomer (d. [[1974]])
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| − | *[[February 15]] - [[Allen Woodring]], American runner (d. [[1982]])
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| − | *[[February 17]] - [[Thomas Coleman Lowry]], [[New Zealand]] [[cricket]] [[captains]] (d. [[1976]])
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| − | *[[February 18]] - [[Enzo Ferrari]], Italian race car driver and automobile manufacturer (d. [[1988]])
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| − | *[[February 18]] - [[Luis Muñoz Marín]], Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (d. [[1980]])
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| − | *[[February 24]] - [[Kurt Tank]], German aeronautical engineer (d. [[1983]])
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| − | *[[February 28]] - [[Hugh O'Flaherty]], Irish Catholic priest (d. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[March 11]] - [[Dorothy Gish]], American actress (d. [[1968]])
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| − | ===April to June===
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| − | *[[April 1]] - [[William James Sidis]], American mathematician (d. [[1944]])
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| − | *[[April 3]] - [[George Jessel (actor)|George Jessel]], American comedian (d. [[1981]])
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| − | *[[April 4]] - [[Agnes Ayres]], American actress (d. [[1940]])
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| − | *[[April 6]] - [[Jeanne Hébuterne]], French painter (d. [[1920]])
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| − | *[[April 26]] - [[Vicente Aleixandre]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1984]])
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| − | *[[April 26]] - [[John Grierson]], Scottish documentary filmmaker (d. [[1972]])
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| − | *[[May 3]] - [[Golda Meir]], [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (d. [[1978]])
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| − | *[[May 15]] - [[Arletty]], French model and actress (d. [[1992]])
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| − | *[[May 17]] - [[Alfred Joseph Casson]], Canadian painter (d. [[1992]])
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| − | *[[May 21]] - [[Armand Hammer]], American entrepreneur and art collector (d. [[1990]])
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| − | *[[May 23]] - [[Scott O'Dell]], American author (d. [[1989]])
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| − | *[[May 31]] - Dr. [[Norman Vincent Peale]], American clergyman (d. [[1993]])
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| − | *[[June 4]] - [[Harry Crosby]], American publisher and poet (d. [[1929]])
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| − | *[[June 5]] - [[Federico García Lorca]], Spanish poet (d. [[1936]])
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| − | *[[June 6]] - [[Ninette de Valois]], Irish dancer and founder of The Royal Ballet, London (d. [[2001]])
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| − | *[[June 17]] - [[M. C. Escher]], Dutch artist (d. [[1972]])
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| − | *[[June 22]] - [[Erich Maria Remarque]], German writer (d. [[1970]])
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| − | ===July to September===
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| − | *[[July 2]] - [[Gen Paul]], French artist (d. [[1975]])
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| − | *[[July 3]] - [[Donald Healey]], English motor engineer and race car driver (d. [[1988]])
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| − | *[[July 6]] - [[Hanns Eisler]], German composer (d. [[1962]])
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| − | *[[July 17]] - [[Berenice Abbott]], American photographer (d. [[1991]])
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| − | *[[July 22]] - [[Stephen Vincent Benet]], American writer (d. [[1943]])
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| − | *[[July 22]] - [[Alexander Calder]], American artist (d. [[1976]])
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| − | *[[July 29]] - [[Isidor Isaac Rabi]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1968]])
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| − | *[[July 30]] - [[Henry Moore]], English sculptor (d. [[1986]])
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| − | *[[August 26]] - [[Peggy Guggenheim]], American art collector (d. [[1979]])
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| − | *[[August 29]] - [[Preston Sturges]], American director and writer (d. [[1959]])
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| − | *[[September 13]] - [[Roger Désormière]], French conductor (d. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[September 22]] - [[Katherine Alexander]], American actress (d. [[1981]])
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| − | *[[September 24]] - [[Howard Walter Florey]], Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1968]])
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| − | *[[September 25]] - [[Robert Brackman]], American artist (d. [[1980]])
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| − | *[[September 26]] - [[George Gershwin]], American composer (d. [[1937]])
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| − | *[[September 30]] - [[Renée Adorée]], French actress (d. [[1933]])
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| − | *[[September 30]] - [[Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois|Princess Charlotte of Monaco]] (d. [[1977]])
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| + | Debate on aluminium for cooking utensils. |
| − | *[[October 10]] - [[Lilly Daché]], French milliner (d. [[1989]])
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| − | *[[October 10]] - [[Marie Pierre Koenig]], French general and politician (d. [[1970]])
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| − | *[[October 15]] - [[Boughera El Ouafi]], Algerian athlete (d. [[1959]])
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| − | *[[November 8]] - [[Marie Prevost]], Canadian actress (d. [[1937]])
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| − | *[[November 12]] - [[Leon Štukelj]], Slovene gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and athlete (d. [[1999]])
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| − | *[[November 17]] - [[Maurice Journeau]], composer (d. [[1999]])
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| − | *[[November 18]] - [[Joris Ivens]], Dutch director (d. [[1989]])
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| − | *[[November 19]] - [[Arthur R. von Hippel]], German-born physicist (d. [[2003]])
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| − | *[[November 21]] - [[René Magritte]], Belgian artist (d. [[1967]])
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| − | *[[November 26]] - [[Karl Ziegler]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1973]])
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| − | *[[November 29]] - [[C. S. Lewis]], British author (d. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[November 30]] - [[Firpo Marberry]], baseball pitcher (d. [[1976]])
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| − | *[[December 2]] - [[Indra Lal Roy]], Indian World War I pilot (d. [[1918]])
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| − | *[[December 19]] - [[Zheng Zhenduo]], Chinese author and translator (d. [[1958]])
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| − | *[[December 20]] - [[Irene Dunne]], American actress (d. [[1990]])
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| − | *[[December 24]] - [[Baby Dodds]], American jazz musician (d. [[1959]])
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| + | Meesers. SPencer and Co., the celebrated ???? of Highbury are sending out the balloon which will be under the management of Mr. Herbert Spencer, a young brother of Mr. Percival SPencer, who in 1889, made at Government House, Parel, the first parachute descent ever seen in India. |
| − | *[[Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah]], King of Malaysia (d. [[1960]])
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| − | *[[Edward Elric]], European Alchemist (d. Unknown)
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| − | *[[January 14]] - [[Lewis Carroll]], British writer, mathematician (b. [[1832]])
| + | Balendranath Tagore, 28 years old, |
| − | *[[January 18]] - [[Henry Liddell | Henry George Lidell]], Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. [[1811]])
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| − | *[[March 1]] - [[George Bruce Malleson]], Indian officer and author (b. [[1825]])
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| − | *[[March 15]] - [[Henry Bessemer]], British engineer and inventor (b. [[1813]])
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| − | *[[March 16]] - [[Aubrey Beardsley]], British artist (b. [[1872]])
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| − | *[[March 18]] - [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]], American feminist (b. [[1826]])
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| − | *[[March 27]] - [[Sir Syed Ahmad Khan]], ("The Morning Star") founded the Aligarh University in Awadh, India (b. [[1817]])
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| − | *[[April 15]] - [[Kepa Te Rangihiwinui]], Maori military leader
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| − | *[[April 18]] - [[Gustave Moreau]], French painter (b. [[1826]])
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| − | *[[May 19]] - [[William Ewart Gladstone]], British prime minister {b. [[1809]])
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| − | *[[July 1]] - [[Siegfried Marcus]], Austrian automobile pioneer (b. [[1831]])
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| − | *[[July 30]] - [[Otto von Bismarck]], German statesman (b. [[1815]])
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| − | *[[August 8]] - [[Eugène Boudin]], French painter (b. [[1824]])
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| − | *[[September 2]] - [[Wilford Woodruff]], president of [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1807]])
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| − | *[[September 9]] - [[Stéphane Mallarmé]], French poet (b. [[1842]])
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| − | *[[September 20]] - [[Theodor Fontane]], German writer (b. [[1819]])
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| − | *[[September 28]] - [[Tan Sitong]], Chinese revolutionary (executed) (b. [[1865]])
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| − | *[[October 24]] - [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes]], French painter (b. [[1824]])
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| − | *[[November 2]] - [[George Goyder]], surveyor-general of South Australia (b. [[1826]])
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| + | Whenever educated, westernised taste has interfered with this intuitive skill (of Indians) of applying pure colours, art has been distorted by the barbaric touch, as it were. The 'barbarians' have learnt only to comprehend the dictionary meaning of the natural and the artificial. They wish to turn the flowers on the carpet into real flowers and impose English patterns on |
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| + | the dazzling traditional colours of saree borders. The more mimetic the patterns is, the less artificial it becomes. |
| − | *[http://www.coinpage.com/1898-pictures.html 1898 Coin Pictures]
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