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January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress .January 12 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.January 13 – An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano , Italy _ 32.610 deadJanuary 19 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising .January 19 - German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom for the first time, killing more than 20.January 21 - Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan .January 27 - Haiti .January 28 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard .January 31 - World War I : Germany uses poison gas against Russians .February 8 - The controversial film The Birth of a Nation D.W. Griffith premieres (Los Angeles, California ).February 12 - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.March 3 - NACA , the predecessor of NASA , is founded.March 14 - World War I : Off the coast of Chile , the Royal Navy sinks the German battleship SMS Dresden .March 14 - Britain , France and Russia agree to give Constantinople and the Bosporus to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik revolution)March 18 - World War I: British attack on the Dardanelles fails.March 19 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet .April 22 - World War I : Second Battle of Ypres - German troops introduce poison gas at Ypres , Belgium .April 24 - Turkish troops attack the Armenian region of Van , starting the Armenian Genocide . In Constantinople , Turkish officers round up 300 ethnically Armenian intellectuals and execute themApril 25 - The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Turkish coast.April 30 - Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmora .May 7 - World War I : The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198.May 9 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois - German and French forces fight.May 17 - The last purely Liberal government in the United Kingdom ends when Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith forms an all party coalition.May 22 - Quintinshill railway disaster, Scotland , UK. 200 killed.May 23 - World War I : Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary .June 9 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.June 16 - Foundation of the British Women's Institute June 24 - The steamer Eastland Chicago , and over 800 people die.June 29 – Roger Casement is sentenced to be hanged for treasonAugust 5 – 23 - hurricane over Galveston and New Orleans – 275 deadAugust 6 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair begins _ The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay .August 17 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia .September 6 - The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.October 12 - World War I : British nurse German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium .
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Births January 5 - Arthur H. Robinson , cartographer (d. 2004 )January 14 - Mark Goodson , game show producer and television pioneer (d. 1992 )January 20 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan , President of PakistanJanuary 24 – Robert Motherwell , American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1991 )January 31 - Thomas Merton , monk and author (d. 1968 )February 1 – Artur London , Czech statesman (d. 1986 )February 4 - Sir Norman Wisdom , English comedian , singer and actor March 10 - Harry Bertoia , Italian artist and designer (d. 1978 )March 11 - Vijay Hazare , Indian Cricket captain (d. 2004 )March 20 - Sviatoslav Richter , Ukrainian pianist (d. 1997 )March 23 - Vasily Zaitsev , Soviet sniper, World War II hero (d. 1991 ).March 31 - Albert Hourani , historian (d. 1993 )April 4 - Muddy Waters , blues musician (d. 1983 )April 7 - Billie Holiday , jazz and blues singer (d. 1959 )May 1 - Krystyna Skarbek , heroine of WW II (d. 1952 )May 1 - Archie Williams , American athlete May 6 - Orson Welles , American director (Citizen Kane ) (d. 1985 )May 20 - Moshe Dayan , Israeli military leader, politician (d. 1981 )May 29 - Karl Münchinger , German conductor (d. 1990 )August 22 - Hugh Paddick , British actor (d. 2000 )October 24 - Tito Gobbi , Italian baritone (d. 1984 )November 11 - William Proxmire , former U.S. Senator November 25 - Augusto Pinochet , Former Chilean PresidentDecember 7 - Eli Wallach , actorDecember 9 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , sopranoDecember 12 - Frank Sinatra , American entertainer (d. 1998 )December 19 - Edith Piaf , French singer (d. 1963 )
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Testimony of Herschel Grynberg, born 1915 in Losice, Poland (1009 words)
My father, Herschel Grynberg, was born to Chana Rivka (nee Swzreki) and Schmuel-Yankel Grynberg on the 13th May 1915 in the family home at 9-9a Berka Yoselvitch Street in Losice schtetl, Eastern Poland. This was the last time he ever saw his family and Losice, the town where he was born and grew up with happy childhood memories. His uncle, Israel-Yitschak Grynberg, was well known as the Ornarlik of Losice (a dealer in edible seeds and oil).
Max Born Biography | World of Physics (1798 words)
Born attended the Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium in Breslau and then, in 1901, enrolled at the University of Breslau and spent the summer semesters of 1902 and 1903 studying in Heidelberg and Zurich. Born at first refused to enter because he was more interested at the time in learning about Minkowski's work on relativity, but he eventually relented and his paper won him both the competition and, in 1907, a Ph.D. in physics. Born's tenure at Edinburgh was spent primarily in the supervision of graduate students, and he produced relatively little new research of his own.
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