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1874
Feb 5
| 1874 • September 14 — Battle of Liberty Place: In New Orleans, former Confederate Army members of the White League temporarily drive Republican Governor William P. Kellogg from office, replacing him with former Democratic Governor John McEnery. U.S. Army troops restore Kellogg to office five days later. "Chief Justice Edward Douglass White", by William H. Forman, Jr., in ABA Journal (March 1970) p261 |
1910
Age: 35y
| 1910 • The electric streetcars of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7 million riders per year. |
1920
Age: 45y
| 1920 • Canonization of Joan of Arc. Over 30,000 people attend the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family. Pope Benedict XV presides over the rite, for which the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is richly decorated. |
1930
Age: 55y
| 1930 • Revolution of 1930 in Brazil: Getúlio Dornelles Vargas establishes a dictatorship. |
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 • In Lascaux, France, 17,000-year-old cave paintings are discovered by a group of young Frenchmen hiking through Southern France. The paintings depict animals and date to the Stone Age. |
1950
Apr 10
Age: 76y
| 1950 • Cunard liner RMS Aquitania arrives at the scrapyard in Faslane at the end of a 36-year career, the longest of any in the 20th Century. |
1966
Age: 91y
| 1966 • The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the military, leaving a military government in power. This is the beginning of a long period of military rule. |