February 1901 calendar

Events

• 02 Feb 1901 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization.
• 05 Feb 1901 Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp.
• 07 Feb 1901 Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
• 18 Feb 1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner.
• 20 Feb 1901 The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
• 25 Feb 1901 US Steel Corp organizes under directorship of J P Morgan.

Famous Birthday

• Clark Gable

  American actor and top star called "the King," Hollywood's quintessential masculine star.

• Reinhold Ebertin

  German astrologer, exponent and developer of Cosmobiology from 1938.

• Linus Pauling

  American scientist, the winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1954 and later for the Peace Prize in 1962.

• Jascha Heifetz

  Lithuanian-American musician who was a world famous violinist who played as a soloist with virtually all of the world's great orchestras.

• René Dubos

  French-American biologist and author (d. 1982).

• Régis Beton
• Nino Besozzi

  Italian film actor who appeared in 54 films between 1931 and 1970.

• Roger Conti

  French billiard master, became pro at 19 and winner of a world tournament in 1938.

• Zeppo Marx

  American actor and agent (d. 1979).

• Alexandre Rignault
• Pierre Lewden

  French field and track champion who competed in the Olympics high jump at Antwerp in 1920, Paris in 1924 and Amsterdam in 1928.

• Marino Marini

  Italian artist and sculptor, blending the elements of archaic Greek, Etruscan and Gothic sculpture into his works.

• Marino Marini

  Italian artist and sculptor, blending the elements of archaic Greek, Etruscan and Gothic sculpture into his works.

• Mildred Davis

  Actress (Haunted Spooks), dies of coronary at 68.

• Federico Chabod

  Italian historian who wrote on the history of political thought, notably "Machiavelli and the Renaissance," 1926.

• Nora Gregor
• Jean Boyer (footballer)
• Roddy Connolly

  Irish politician, son of James Connolly (d. 1980).

• Rudolf W

  Nilsen Norwegian poet (Hverdagen).

• Connie Gilchrist

  Brooklyn, New York -- Actress (Cry Havoc, Letter to 3 Wives).

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Famous Deaths

• Chi-hsui

  During Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded.

• Hsu Cheng-yu

  During Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded.

• George Francis Fitzgerald

  Irish mathematician (Born 1851).

• Benjamin Edward Woolf composer

  dies at age 64.

• Edward John Hopkins composer

  dies at age 82.

• Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin composer

  dies at age 38.

• Jose Rogel composer

  dies at age 71.

• Milan I

  Milan I of Serbia (d. 1901).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Sousa's Band - The Bride Elect: March
2. Sousa's Band - The Stars and Stripes Forever (new version)
3. Byron G. Harlan - When the Harvest Days Are Over
4. Sousa's Band - William Tell Overture: Finale
5. Sousa's Band - American Patrol