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Events

January 2 - Alice Sanger[?] becomes the first female staffer for the White House.
January 25 - The United Mine Workers of America[?] is founded
January 25 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days
U.S. Census - Herman Hollerith devises method using punch cards (like Jacquard's loom) to tabulate the data by machine, since existing methods would use more than ten years. (see also History of computing). Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM.
July 3 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
July 10 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
December 29 - The United States Seventh Cavalry[?] massacres over 400 men, women and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
The cardboard box is invented by Robert Gair.

Births

January 1 - Anton Melik, Slovene geographer.
January 7 - Henny Porten[?], actress (+ 1960)
January 9 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist.
February 10 - Boris Pasternak, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1958 (+ 1960)
February 11 - John de Vries[?], fairy tale writer.
February 14 - Nina Hamnett, artist
February 18 - Adolphe Menjou, actor (+ 1963)
February 24 - Marjorie Main[?], actress (+ 1975)
February 25 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (+ 1986)
March 9 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Union politician (+ 1986)
March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author of As We May Think (+ 1974)
March 20 - Beniamino Gigli, tenor (+ 1957)
March 20 - Lauritz Melchior, opera singer (+ 1973)
March 28 - Paul Whiteman, bandleader
April 6 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer.
May 10 - Alfred Jodl, German general (+ 1946)
May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter[?], author (+ 1980)
May 19 - Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam (+ 1969)
May 23 - Herbert Marshall[?], actor (+ 1966)
June 16 - Arthur Stanley Jefferson , British actor later known as Stan Laurel.
August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer.
August 24 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer.
September 15 - Agatha Christie, English mystery writer.
September 20 - Jelly Roll Morton, pianist
October 2 - Groucho Marx, comedian (+ 1977)
October 14 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General of the Army, 34th president of the United States
October 16 - Michael Collins, Irish patriot (+ 1922)
October 16 - Paul Strand[?], American photographer.
November 22 - Charles de Gaulle, French president.
December 5 - David Bomberg, painter
December 8 - Bohuslav Martinu, composer

Deaths

July 29 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter
October 26 - Carlo Collodi, italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio
December 26 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist

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