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Buddy Rogers (actor)
1904 Aug, 13

Buddy Rogers (actor)

Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician (d. 1999)
Charles Edward "Buddy" Rogers (August 13, 1904 – April 21, 1999) was an American film actor and musician. During the peak of his popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s he was publicized as "America's Boy Friend."

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Events on 1904

  • 17 Jan

    The Cherry Orchard

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

    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.
  • 8 Apr

    The Book of the Law

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

    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.
  • 16 Nov

    Vacuum tube

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