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Yevgenia Ginzburg
1904Dec, 20

Yevgenia Ginzburg

Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (d. 1977)
Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg (December 20, 1904 – May 25, 1977) (Russian: Евге́ния Соломо́новна Ги́нзбург) was a Russian author who served an 18-year sentence in the Gulag. Her given name is often Latinized to Eugenia.

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    The Cherry Orchard

    Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
  • 3Mar

    Thomas Edison

    Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.
  • 8Apr

    The Book of the Law

    British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
  • 5May

    Cy Young

    Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
  • 16Nov

    Vacuum tube

    English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).