Alta Janetta Miller
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Parents
Spouse
George Jacob Simon
George Jacob Simon
1875 - 1964
Siblings
Estella Mary Miller
Estella Mary Miller
1878 - 1924
Lula Bell Miller
Lula Bell Miller
1880 - 1968
Charles Dewitt Miller
Charles Dewitt Miller
1887 - 1981

1920


Age: 45y
1920 • Bolshevik Cavalry break through Polish and Ukrainian lines south of Kiev, precipitating eventual withdrawal.

1930


Age: 55y
1930 • While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a Celestial Body considered a planet until redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006.

1940


Apr 2
Age: 66y
George Jacob Simon - 1940 United States Federal Census

residence


Memphis, 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.
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1940 • In Sweden, Victor Hasselblad forms the Victor Hasselblad AB Camera Company.

1950


Apr 10
Age: 76y
1950 • Legendary singer-actor Paul Robeson, whose passport had recently been revoked because of his alleged Communist affiliations, meets with U.S. officials in an effort to get it reinstated. He is unsuccessful, and it is not reinstated until 1958.

1966


Age: 91y
1966 Long-term potentiation (LTP), the putative cellular mechanism of learning and memory, is first observed by Terje Lømo in Oslo, Norway.

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