April 1901 calendar

Events

• 07 Apr 1901 SDAP demands general voting right / abolishing First Chamber
• 19 Apr 1901 James J Caffrey wins Boston marathon
• 24 Apr 1901 1st AL game, Chicago beats Cleveland Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out
• 25 Apr 1901 In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score ten runs to win one of the greatest comebacks in baseball (first game in Detroit).
• 29 Apr 1901 27th Kentucky Derby Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence wins in 2:07.75.

Famous Birthday

• Jacques Lacan

  French psychoanalyst who gained an international reputation as an original interpreter of Sigmund Freud's work.

• Hirohito

  Japanese royalty, the first born son of Emperor Taisho and the crown prince in 1916 and declared the 124th Ruler of Japan on 12/25/1926...

• René Pleven

  French politician, twice Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic.

• Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
• Adriano Olivetti

  Italian industrialist and member of the Italian Parliament.

• Michel Leiris

  French cultural anthropologist.

• Paul Demange
• Melvyn Douglas

  American actor (Born 1901).

• Glenway Wescott

  American writer, a novelist, poet, short story writer and gay journalist of personal observations.

• Alexandre Vialatte
• Anis Fuleihan

  composer.

• George Keyt

  artist.

• Julian Bautista

  composer.

• EB Ford

  British ecological geneticist (d. 1988).

• Karel Albert

  Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen).

• Leo Poos

  Nazi police officer (caught Dutch underground agents).

• Chester Bowles

  Massachusetts, United States -- Ambassador / writer (Conscience of a Liberal).

• Martin Kessel

  writer.

• Cesare Bettarini

  Italian film actor who appeared in a number of productions during the Fascist era, including the 1935 drama "Like the Leaves" (1935).

• Theodor Rogalski

  composer.

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Famous Deaths

• Francois M Raoult

  French physicist / chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70.

• Ivar Christian Hallstrom composer

  dies at age 74.

• William Stubbs historian/bishop

  dies.

• Richard Redhead composer

  dies at age 81.

• Alfred Horatio Belo

  American newswriter and businessman (Born 1839).

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. George Washington Johnson - The Laughing Song
2. Billy Golden - Roll on the Ground
3. Vess Ossman - Florodora: Selections
4. Harry Macdonough & Grace Spencer - Tell Me, Pretty Maiden