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Phil Harris, the bandleader who became famous by portraying himself as a flashy, hard-drinking musician on the old Jack Benny radio show, died. … He was 89. July 1 – Mary Calderone, physician and public health advocate (died 1998) [48] July 15 – Dorothy Fields, librettist (died 1974) [49]
1904–2010: 106: American actress and dance instructor; last surviving Ziegfeld girl [267] Roger Tréville: 1902–2005: 102: French actor [268] Mabel Trunnelle: 1879–1981: 101: American actress [269] Morton Tubor: 1917–2019: 102: American film and sound editor [270] Franca Valeri: 1920–2020: 100: Italian actress [271] Ninette de Valois ...
Formby's father, George Sr George Formby was born George Hoy Booth in Wigan, Lancashire, on 26 May 1904.He was the eldest of seven surviving children born to James Lawler Booth and his wife Eliza, née Hoy, [1] although this marriage was bigamous because Booth was still married to his first wife, Martha Maria Salter, a twenty-year-old music hall performer. [2]
Jim Key at the 1904 World's Fair. Beautiful Jim Key was a famous performing horse around the turn of the twentieth century. [1] His promoters claimed that the horse could read and write, handle money, perform arithmetic for numbers below thirty, [2] and recite Bible passages "where the horse is mentioned."
1904 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1904th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 904th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1904, the ...
One of his most important industrial inventions, still in use today, is the thread rolling machine. He quickly began selling his newly devised manufacturing equipment alongside his commercial products. Hubbell received at least 45 patents, [3] most of which were for electric products. The pull-chain electrical light socket was patented in 1896 ...
Westinghouse Works, 1904, a collection of 21 short films directed by Billy Bitzer – The Widow and the Only Man, directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr. – The Wonderful Living Fan (Le Merveilleux Éventail vivant), directed by Georges Méliès –
Live documentary: Captured a fire in Chicago filming firefighters on the roofs of buildings throwing streams of water on the burning structure with black smoke The Child Stealers: Decoyed: A Ferry in the Far East: Fording a Stream: The Great Baltimore Fire: High Diving and Reverse: Hurdle Jumping: An Intelligent Elephant: The Monkey Bicyclist