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Hancock in the U.S. presidential election.<p><b><font color="red">November 4</b></font> - the first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.<p><b><font color="red">November 11</b></font> - Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.<p><b><font color="red">November 22</b></font> - Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor´s Theatre in New York City.<p><b><font color="red">December 30</b></font> - The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president.<p>Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.<p>Completion of Cologne cathedral.<p>Founding of Science by Thomas Edison.<p>Cocaine isolated<p>The British recognise Abdur Rahman Khan as amir of Afghanistan<p>Capuchin catacombs of Palermo are officially closed (there will be some burials afterwards)<p><b><u>BIRTHS</u></b><p><b><font color="red">January 1</b></font> - Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)<p><b><font color="red">January 6</b></font> - Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)<p><b><font color="red">January 17</b></font> - Mack Sennett, Canadian director and producer (d. 1960)<p><b><font color="red">January 26</b></font> - Douglas MacArthur, American general (d. 1964)<p><b><font color="red">January 28</b></font> - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)<p><b><font color="red">January 29</b></font> - W.C. 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Laughlin, American eugenicist (d. 1943)<p><b><font color="red">March 22</b></font> - Kuniaki Koiso, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1950)<p><b><font color="red">March 30</b></font> - Sean O´Casey, Irish writer (d. 1964)<p><b><font color="red">April 13</b></font> - Charles Christie, Canadian-born film studio owner (d. 1955)<p><b><font color="red">April 18</b></font> - Sam Crawford, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1968)<p><b><font color="red">May 6</b></font> - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)<p><b><font color="red">May 14</b></font> - B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born financial publisher (d. 1954)<p><b><font color="red">May 25</b></font> - Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)<p><b><font color="red">May 25</b></font> - Alf Common, English footballer (d. 1946)<p><b><font color="red">May 29</b></font> - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)<p><b><font color="red">June 6</b></font> - W.T. Cosgrave, Irish politician (d. 1965)<p><b><font color="red">June 27</b></font> - Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)<p><b><font color="red">July 5</b></font> - Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)<p><b><font color="red">July 24</b></font> - Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born composer (d. 1959)<p><b><font color="red">August 6</b></font> - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)<p><b><font color="red">August 8</b></font> - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)<p><b><font color="red">August 10</b></font> - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)<p><b><font color="red">August 22</b></font> - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)<p><b><font color="red">August 26</b></font> - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (d. 1918)<p><b><font color="red">August 31</b></font> - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)<p><b><font color="red">September 14</b></font> - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)<p><b><font color="red">September 22</b></font> - Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1958)<p><b><font color="red">September 23</b></font> - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)<p><b><font color="red">November 6</b></font> - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)<p><b><font color="red">November 10</b></font> - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (d. 1959)<p><b><font color="red">December 11</b></font> - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)<p><b><font color="red">December 31</b></font> - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)<p>Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, American equestrian (d. 1925)<p>Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (d. 1920)<p>Gar Wood, American motorboat racer (d. 1971)<p><b><u>UNKNOWN BIRTH DATES</u></b><p><b>William J. Simmons</b> - Founder of the second Ku Klux Klan<p><b><u>DEATHS</u></b><p><b><font color="red">January 8</b></font> - Joshua A. Norton, self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America (b. 1811)<p><b><font color="red">March 31</b></font> - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)<p><b><font color="red">May 4</b></font> - Edward Clark, Confederate Governor of Texas (b. 1815)<p><b><font color="red">May 8</b></font> - Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)<p><b><font color="red">July 7</b></font> - Lydia Child, American novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802)<p><b><font color="red">August 17</b></font> - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)<p><b><font color="red">October 4</b></font> - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)<p><b><font color="red">November 11</b></font> - Ned Kelly, Australian bush ranger (hanged)<p><b><font color="red">December 22</b></font> - George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819)"</b></font> - <center>'
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