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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 • Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom under Nicholas I. |
1920
Age: 45y
| 1920 • League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16 the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris. |
1930
Age: 55y
| 1930 • England cricketer Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1,110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians. |
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 ⇓ |
1950
Apr 10
Age: 76y
| 1950 • Payment first made by Diners Club card, in New York, first use of a charge card. |
1966
Age: 91y
| 1966 • Zambia threatens to leave the Commonwealth of Nations because of British peace overtures to Rhodesia. |