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Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was an English political activist and writer. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's righ…
Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (born 1847)
John Charles Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey was a British jurist and politician. After early success as a lawyer and a less successful spell as a politician, he was appointed a judge …
John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (born 1840)
Frederic Edward Weatherly, KC was an English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster. He was christened and brought up using the name Frederick Edward Weatherly, and appears to ha…
Frederic Weatherly, English lawyer, author, and songwriter (born 1848)
Jatindra Nath Das, better known as Jatin Das, was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary who worked to make India independent from the British Raj and was a member of the Hind…
Jatindra Nath Das, Indian activist (born 1904)
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy was an Austrian-born chemist. He was known for his research in colloids, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925, as well as for co-in…
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
Mahitala Dhibesra Adulyadej Vikrom, the Prince Father, formerly Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkhla or Mahidol Songkla, was the father of King Ananda Mahidol and King Bhum…
Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai prince (born 1892)
Miller James Huggins was an American professional baseball player and manager. Huggins played second base for the Cincinnati Reds (1904–1909) and St. Louis Cardinals (1910–1916). H…
Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (born 1879)
Antoine Bourdelle, born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was a French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important f…
Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (born 1861)
Jeanne Eagels was an American stage and film actress. Eagels appeared in many Broadway productions, and in the emerging medium of sound films. She was posthumously nominated for th…
Jeanne Eagels, American actress (born 1894)
Varghese Payyappilly was an Indian Syro-Malabar priest from Kerala and the founder of the congregation of Sisters of the Destitute. He was declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 14 …
Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute (born 1876)
Henry Berger was a Prussian-born Kapellmeister, composer, and royal bandmaster of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi from 1872 to 1915.
Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (born 1844)
Gustav Ernst Stresemann was a German statesman during the Weimar Republic who served as chancellor of Germany from August to November 1923 and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929…
Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1878)
Théodore-Marin Tuffier was a French surgeon. He was a pioneer of pulmonary and cardiovascular surgery and of spinal anaesthesia.
Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (born 1857)
Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin, Prince of Bülow was a German politician who served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia from 1900 to 190…
Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1849)
Norman Gilbert Pritchard, also known by his stage name Norman Trevor, was a British-Indian athlete and actor who became the first Asian-born athlete to win an Olympic medal when he…
Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and actor (born 1877)
The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and hosted by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from A…
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California
Margaret Grace Bondfield was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be …
Margaret Bondfield (pictured) became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Min
The Lateran Treaty was one component of the Lateran Pacts of 1929, agreements between Italy under King Victor Emmanuel III and Duce Benito Mussolini and the Holy See under Pope Piu…
The Lateran Treaty was ratified to bring Vatican City into existence, thus ending the "Roman question"
Margaret Grace Bondfield was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be …
Margaret Bondfield became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of La
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian spiritual figure, speaker, and writer. Adopted by members of the Theosophical Society as a child, Krishnamurti was raised to fill the mantle of the…
Jiddu Krishnamurti (pictured), believed by some Theosophists to be a likely candidate for the messianic "World…
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight servi…
The German airship Graf Zeppelin departed Lakehurst, New Jersey, on a flight to circumnavigate the world.
The Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic is an annual parade held since 1929 in Chicago, Illinois. The Bud Billiken Day Parade is the largest African-American parade in the United States…
The first Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the oldest and largest African-American parade in the United States, was…
The Western Wall is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount of Jerusalem. Its most famous section, known by the same name, o…
A long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into a…
The Wall Street crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash in the United States which began in October 1929 with a sharp decline in prices on the …
On "Black Thursday", the New York Stock Exchange lost 11 percent of its value at the opening bell on very heavy…