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Horace Pippin was an American painter who painted a range of themes, including scenes inspired by his service in World War I, landscapes, portraits, and biblical subjects. Some of …
Horace Pippin, American painter (born 1888)
Ray Stannard Baker was an American journalist, historian, biographer, and writer.
Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist and author (born 1870)
Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his ph…
Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (born 1864)
William Charles "Razor" Smith was a Surrey slow bowler. Nicknamed "Razor" because of his extreme thinness, Smith was a frail man and prone to serious injury; he could rarely get th…
Razor Smith, English cricketer and coach (born 1877)
Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović was a Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. He was the leader of the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (Chetniks), a royalist and nationali…
Draža Mihailović, Serbian and Yugoslav general (born 1893)
Gualberto Villarroel López was a Bolivian military officer who served as the 39th president of Bolivia from 1943 to 1946. A reformist, sometimes compared with Argentina's Juan Peró…
Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian soldier and politician, 45th President of Bolivia (born 1908)
Florence Ada Fuller was a South African-born Australian artist. Originally from Port Elizabeth, Fuller migrated as a child to Melbourne with her family. There she trained with her …
Florence Fuller, South African-born Australian artist (born 1867)
Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and …
Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1874)
Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, born as Anna Muttathupadathu, was an Indian Catholic nun and educator. She is the first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by …
Saint Alphonsa, first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church (born 1910)
Wilhelm Marx was a German judge, lawyer, and politician who twice served as chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic, from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928. He also…
Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (born 1863)
Anthony Michael Lazzeri was an American professional baseball second baseman during the 1920s and 1930s, predominantly with the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He …
Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and coach (born 1903)
Albert Edward Ernest Vogler was a South African cricketer. A leading all-rounder skilled both at batting and bowling, Vogler played cricket in South Africa prior to becoming eligib…
Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (born 1876)
Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social co…
H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (born 1866)
Che Yaoxian was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and an officer in the Sichuan army. In 1921, after meeting a local preacher in Jianyang, he converted to Christianity. In 19…
Che Yaoxian, Chinese communist (born 1894)
Luo Shiwen was a Chinese communist. Born in Weiyuan County, Sichuan, he became interested in communism during the May Fourth Movement before joining the Chinese Socialist Youth Lea…
Luo Shiwen, Chinese communist (born 1904)
Döme Sztójay was a Hungarian soldier and diplomat of Serb origin, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary in 1944, during World War II.
Döme Sztójay, Hungarian general and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1883)
James Clark McReynolds was an American lawyer and judge from Tennessee who served as United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson and as an associate justice of th…
James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (born 1862)
Abbie Jean MacPherson was an American silent actress, writer and director. She is known for her collaborations with directors D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and was a foundin…
Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (born 1887)
The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Pea…
The final session of the League of Nations concluded in Geneva, with delegates agreeing to transfer much of its assets t
The Naperville train disaster occurred on April 25, 1946, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad at Loomis Street in Naperville, Illinois, when the railroad's Exposition Fl…
Two passenger trains collided in Naperville, Illinois, leaving 45 people dead and some 125 injured
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita.
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony
Plutonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pu and atomic number 94. It is a silvery-gray actinide metal that tarnishes when exposed to air, and forms a dull coating when oxidiz…
While working with a mass of plutonium known as the demon core, Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin accidentally ex
The Partisan Congress riots were attacks on Jews in Bratislava and other cities and towns in the autonomous Slovak region of Czechoslovakia between 1 and 6 August 1946. Nineteen pe…
Several days of anti-Jewish rioting began in Bratislava, instigated by former Slovak partisans opposed to the…
The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake struck Vancouver Island on the coast of British Columbia, Canada, on June 23 at 10:15 a.m. with a magnitude estimated at 7.0 Ms and 7.5 Mw. The…
Canada's largest recorded onshore earthquake struck Vancouver Island, British Columbia