2004 Elmer Bernstein, composer, Thoroughly Modern Millie, dies at 82
2002 Tony Awards, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Private Lives revival, and Into the Woods revival won major awards
1999 Saul Steinberg, cartoonist/modern artist, A View of the World from Manhattan, dies at 84
1997 South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp
1995 Martha Hill, modern dancer/teacher, dies at 94
1989 Beatrice Lillie, actress (Thoroughly Modern Millie), dies at 94
1984 King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels
1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1984 Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game
1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott
1977 Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88
1976 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal
1974 Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79
1971 Chester Conklin, actor (Greed, Modern Times), dies at 83
1964 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
1962 Michael Colnroy, Modern English, rocker
1961 Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
1961 NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd
1961 Seerp Anema, Dutch poet and writer (Modern Art and Degenerating), dies at 85
1958 Rudolf von Laban, Czech/Ger choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78
1958 Paul Weller, guitar, Jam-This is Modern World, Style Council
1957 Maria "Mary" Beekman, actress (Modern Landhaaien), dies at 73
1956 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1956 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm
1956 Arnold Schonberg's "Modern Psalm," premieres
1954 Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern and 15 pioneers
1953 Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
1952 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood
1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland
1951 Jonathan Richman, rocker, Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae
1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball
1945 The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of
1940 Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60
1937 William Henry Hadow, composer (Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77
1937 P J Squire, British headmaster, Bedford Modern School
1937 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released
1933 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn
1932 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1929 New York City Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1929 Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City
1928 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
1920 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium
1917 Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
1913 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob
1912 David Raksin, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, composer, Modern Times
1908 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
1908 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
1906 3rd modern Olympic games opens in Athens
1906 Britain's 1st modern and largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
1904 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis
1904 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St. Louis
1901 Charles Weidman, born in Nebraska, modern dancer and choreographer, Candide
1900 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months)
1900 Hyman G Rickover, U.S. Admiral, father of modern nuclear navy
1898 Rod La Rocque, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Our Modern Maidens
1896 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
1896 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens
1896 Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece
1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18
1894 Yoshida Isoya, Tokyo, Japan, architect, modern sukiya style
1894 Hermann Oberth, born in Germany, founded modern astronautics, V2/Redstone
1894 Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1892 P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games
1892 Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby
1889 A Provost Idell, father of modern volleyball
1880 Mikhail Fokine, born in Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance
1879 Rudolf von Laban, Czech/German choreographer, modern dance
1871 Henricus P Bremmer, art historian, Modern Kunstwerken
1869 Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design
1866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China, ROC and PRC, traditional
1862 F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73
1861 Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria, 1908-18
1856 Louis Henri Sullivan, born in Boston, Massachusetts, father of modern U.S. architecture
1850 Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi
1829 Tremont Hotel, 1st U.S. modern hotel opens (Boston)
1828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology
1799 Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit
1788 F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter, Modern Vasari
1787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery
1779 Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography
1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor, modern pencil
1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
1597 Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"
1554 Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies
1400 Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies
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