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1874
Feb 5
| 1874 • Sack of Cuenca (Third Carlist War): After Carlist forces successfully defended Estella, Don Alfonso de Bourbon, brother of the Don Carlos VII, led 14,000 Catalan Carlists south to attack Cuenca 136 km from Madrid, held by Republicans under Don Hilario Lozano. After two days the outnumbered garrison capitulated but Don Alfonso permitted a terrible slaughter. The city is sacked. Subsequently another republican force defeats the disorderly Catalans who flee back to the Ebro. |
1910
Age: 35y
| 1910 • Comet Halley is visible from Earth. It won't be seen again until 1986. |
1920
Age: 45y
| 1920 • The Grand National Assembly of Turkey is founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Ankara. It denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution. |
1930
Age: 55y
| 1930 • Laurence Olivier marries Jill Esmond. |
1940
Apr 2
Age: 66y
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residenceMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ George lived at 140 West Jefferson Street in Memphis. Alta's mother, Harriet Madison Jenkins is living with them at 85 years old shortly before her death. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1940 • Leon Trotsky is attacked with an ice axe in his Mexico home by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader. |
1966
Age: 91y
| 1966 • In Washington, D.C., General Motors President James M. Roche appears before a Senate subcommittee, and apologizes to consumer advocate Ralph Nader for the company's intimidation and harassment campaign against him. |