Today in United States of America History (Part 5)
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Historical Events
Results 401 - 500 of 1,274
1896-04-06 - 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
1896-05-26 - 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY
1896-07-21 - National Federation of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's
1897-01-23 - Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1897-03-05 - American Negro Academy forms
1897-04-19 - 1st American marathon ran, John J McDermott wins in 2:55:10 (Boston)
1897-06-16 - A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
1897-09-10 - Lattimer Massacre - a sheriff's posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
1898-04-11 - President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
1898-04-21 - Spanish-American War begins
1898-04-21 - Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date.
1898-04-22 - 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship
1898-04-24 - The Spanish-American War: The United States declare war on Spain.
1898-04-25 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
1898-06-07 - Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic
1898-06-10 - US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
1898-06-11 - 1st US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War
1898-06-17 - The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1898-06-24 - American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
1898-07-03 - American troops captured deserted Wake Island
1898-07-04 - US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1898-07-17 - Spanish American War-Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba
1898-08-12 - Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
1898-09-15 - National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
1898-10-18 - American flag raised in Puerto Rico
1898-12-10 - Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam
1899-01-28 - American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress
1899-02-04 - The Philippine-American War begins.
1899-02-06 - Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
1899-06-02 - Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
1899-10-20 - Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th America's Cup
1899-12-02 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
1900-01-16 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
1900-01-27 - Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention
1900-01-29 - American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis
1900-02-05 - The United States and the United Kingdom sign treaty for Panama Canal
1900-03-05 - American Hall of Fame found
1900-04-17 - 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession
1900-09-13 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
1900-09-17 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
1900-11-13 - Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
1901-01-24 - 1st games played in baseball's American League
1901-03-02 - The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
1901-04-25 - Erve Beck hits American League's 1st home run
1901-05-01 - Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League
1901-05-01 - Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
1901-05-30 - Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
1901-09-06 - Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later
1901-10-04 - Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America's Cup
1902-03-04 - American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
1902-03-10 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
1902-04-02 - "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
1902-10-21 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
1902-11-30 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
1903-01-09 - Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace
1903-02-15 - 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
1903-03-26 - American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1903-04-22 - American Power Boat Association forms
1903-09-03 - Resolute beats Shamrock III (England) in 13th America's Cup
1903-09-07 - Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY
1903-12-30 - American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
1904-02-05 - American occupation of Cuba ends
1904-04-23 - American Academy of Arts & Letters forms
1904-05-04 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1904-05-06 - American Lung Association holds its 1st meeting
1904-05-18 - American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco
1904-09-29 - 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)
1904-10-17 - Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors
1904-10-19 - Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
1905-01-02 - The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.
1905-04-17 - The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which held that the "right to free contract" was implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
1906-01-13 - 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile
1906-03-06 - Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers
1906-05-19 - Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
1906-05-26 - Archaeological Institute of America forms
1906-07-11 - The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
1906-10-11 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
1906-12-09 - NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo
1906-12-10 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1906-12-27 - 1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI
1907-01-23 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
1908-03-23 - American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
1908-07-26 - United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1908-10-14 - Baseball Writers Association of America, forms
1908-11-22 - 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1909-04-06 - North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
1909-06-09 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
1909-08-11 - SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
1910-02-08 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1910-02-15 - The Boy Scouts of America is founded.
1911-04-27 - Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
1911-05-11 - The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1911-08-08 - The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
1911-08-08 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913.
1911-08-14 - United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
1911-08-29 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1911-11-18 - Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance
1912-04-14 - Pan American Union forms
1912-11-25 - American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Ill
1913-02-15 - 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC
Famous Birthdays
Results 401 - 500 of 9,097
1860-03-27 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
1860-04-07 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
1860-04-22 - Ada Rehan, American stage actress (d. 1916)
1860-05-16 - Herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896)
1860-05-25 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
1860-07-05 - Robert Bacon, American politician (d. 1919)
1860-07-31 - Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (d. 1940)
1860-08-15 - Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist (d. 1941)
1860-09-14 - Hamlin Garland, American writer (d. 1940)
1860-10-31 - Juliette Gordon Low, activist/founder (Girl Scouts of America)
1860-11-01 - Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Pennsylvania (d. 1921)
1860-11-21 - Tom Horn, American gunman (d. 1903)
1860-12-22 - Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator (d. 1927)
1860-12-31 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (d. 1937)
1861-05-03 - Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (d. 1937)
1861-09-30 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932)
1861-10-04 - Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West
1861-11-07 - Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)
1862-03-23 - Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw turned evangelist (d.1950)
1862-06-10 - Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
1862-07-14 - Florence Bascom, US, 1st American woman PhD
1862-08-26 - Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
1862-09-11 - O. Henry, American writer (d. 1910)
1862-10-04 - Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
1862-11-19 - Billy Sunday, American evangelist (d. 1935)
1863-03-04 - John Henry Wigmore, American jurist and expert in the law of evidence (d. 1943)
1863-03-21 - George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp(d.1934)
1863-03-25 - Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946)
1863-05-24 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
1863-08-14 - Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940)
1863-08-17 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (d. 1924)
1863-09-21 - John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)
1863-10-08 - Edythe Chapman, American actress (d. 1948)
1863-10-10 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
1863-12-02 - Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)
1863-12-06 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist (d. 1914)
1864-01-06 - Ban Johnson, Norwalk Ct, baseball founder (American League)
1864-03-19 - Charles Marion Russell, American artist (d. 1926)
1864-06-13 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (d. 1939)
1864-07-13 - John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur (d. 1912)
1864-10-10 - T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)
1864-10-20 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951)
1864-10-25 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (d. 1920)
1864-11-23 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (d. 1936)
1864-11-28 - Lindley M. Garrison, American Secretary of War (d. 1932)
1864-12-12 - Paul Elmer More, American essayist (d. 1937)
1864-12-25 - Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (d. 1951)
1865-03-19 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
1865-04-08 - Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist (d. 1940)
1865-05-02 - Clyde Fitch, American playwright (d. 1909)
1865-05-05 - Nellie Bly, American journalist and writer (d. 1922)
1865-05-26 - Robert W. Chambers, American artist (d. 1933)
1865-08-27 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
1865-10-17 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950)
1865-10-18 - Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946)
1865-10-23 - Neltje Blanchan, American writer (d. 1918)
1865-10-26 - Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
1865-12-20 - Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (d. 1950)
1866-01-08 - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940)
1866-11-13 - Abraham Flexner, American educator (d. 1959)
1866-11-17 - Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
1867-02-26 - Siegfried Passarge, German geographer (Cameroon/So Afr/America)
1867-04-24 - Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American (113 y 273 d at death)
1867-07-25 - Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
1867-07-28 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)
1867-07-31 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant and philanthropist (d. 1966)
1867-08-25 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951)
1867-09-05 - Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
1868-01-01 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (d. 1937)
1868-05-10 - Ed Barrow, American baseball manager (d. 1953)
1868-05-17 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1920)
1868-06-29 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1868-07-04 - Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
1868-08-16 - Bernarr McFadden, American publisher (d. 1955)
1869-01-23 - Herbert David Croly, US author (Promise of American Life)
1869-06-27 - Kate Carew, American caricaturist (d. 1961)
1869-07-01 - William Strunk Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)
1869-11-11 - Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1901)
1869-11-25 - Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer (d. 1934)
1869-12-05 - Ellis Parker Butler, American author (d. 1937)
1870-01-11 - Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945)
1870-01-13 - Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d.1959)
1870-01-15 - Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman (d. 1954)
1870-02-18 - William Laurel Harris, American mural painter, writer (d. 1924)
1870-04-21 - Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer (d. 1941)
1870-05-06 - Amedos Peter Giannine, San Jose Calif, founded Bank of America
1870-05-19 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)
1870-05-24 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (d. 1938)
1870-07-25 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1870-09-07 - Thomas Curtis, American athlete (d. 1944)
1870-09-18 - Clark Wissler, anthropologist (American Indian)
1870-09-30 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948)
1870-11-25 - Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (d. 1937)
1870-12-12 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil baron (d. 1912)
1870-12-13 - Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940)
1870-12-25 - Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics industrialist (d. 1965)
1871-03-01 - Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)
1871-04-08 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (d. 1925)
1871-05-11 - Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943)
1871-08-01 - John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
Famous Deaths
Results 401 - 500 of 3,298
1919-02-07 - William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
1919-05-29 - Robert Bacon, American politician (b. 1860)
1920-01-14 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
1920-03-26 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834)
1920-04-29 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
1920-05-16 - Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824)
1920-07-02 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
1920-08-02 - Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
1920-11-25 - Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)
1920-12-10 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (b. 1868)
1921-01-22 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
1921-03-02 - Champ Clark, American politician (b. 1850)
1922-07-13 - Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
1924-04-24 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
1924-07-23 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
1924-11-04 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
1924-11-09 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1924-11-19 - Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
1924-11-21 - Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
1924-12-06 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
1924-12-13 - Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74
1925-03-13 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
1925-05-12 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
1925-06-16 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
1925-07-07 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b.. 1871)
1925-08-05 - Jennie Lee (actor), American actress (b. 1848)
1926-01-30 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
1926-04-11 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
1926-04-28 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
1926-06-14 - Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1843)
1926-08-14 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
1926-08-22 - Charles William Eliot, American University president (b. 1834)
1926-10-20 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
1927-01-17 - Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
1927-03-04 - Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
1927-05-18 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (b. 1872)
1927-05-25 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
1927-07-09 - John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
1927-09-12 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
1928-01-21 - George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858)
1928-02-16 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (b. 1856)
1928-03-07 - Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
1928-06-22 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
1928-08-10 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
1928-12-16 - Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (b. 1885)
1929-02-14 - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
1929-03-01 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
1929-03-05 - David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile pioneer (b. 1854)
1929-03-12 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
1929-03-26 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
1929-07-05 - Henry Lincoln Johnson, Member of 369th regiment (aka Harlem Hell Fighters), first American to receive the Croix de guerre (b. 1897)
1929-08-02 - Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
1929-08-03 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
1929-12-12 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
1930-03-08 - Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)
1930-09-05 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1930-09-15 - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
1930-10-15 - Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (b. 1866)
1930-10-26 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
1931-01-11 - James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
1931-01-22 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
1931-03-22 - Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67
1931-05-14 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
1931-08-06 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
1931-08-27 - Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
1931-09-11 - Salvatore Maranzano, American crime boss (b. 1868)
1931-12-05 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
1931-12-23 - Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865)
1932-03-01 - Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
1932-04-27 - Hart Crane, American writer (b. 1899)
1932-06-22 - Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (b. 1892)
1932-07-07 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
1932-07-09 - King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1885)
1932-11-22 - William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
1932-11-27 - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
1933-01-17 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
1933-01-26 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
1933-01-29 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
1933-03-26 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)
1933-06-02 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
1933-07-15 - Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
1933-08-28 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
1933-09-25 - Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
1933-11-05 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)
1934-01-30 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
1934-07-12 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and industrialist (b. 1877)
1934-09-02 - Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
1934-12-13 - Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (b. 1854)
1935-01-16 - Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
1935-03-23 - Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
1935-07-26 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
1935-12-09 - Walter Liggett, American crusading newspaper editor and muckraker (b. 1886)
1936-01-16 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
1936-04-13 - Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (b. 1903)
1936-04-26 - Tammany Young, American actor (b.1886)
1936-06-11 - Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)
1936-07-11 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
1936-10-08 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851)
1936-10-20 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
1936-11-06 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
