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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 • African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats American boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States. |
1920
Age: 45y
| 1920 • The German army marches to the Ruhr to fight the Ruhr Red Army. |
1930
Age: 55y
| 1930 • Princess Margaret Rose is born at Glamis Castle in Scotland, younger daughter of Prince Albert, Duke of York (second son of King George V and Queen Mary, and later King George VI) and Elizabeth, Duchess of York, and sister to The Princess Elizabeth. |
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 • WWII: Operation Wilfred: The British fleet lays naval mines off the coast of neutral Norway. |
1966
Age: 91y
| 1966 • Scotland Yard arrests Buster Edwards, suspected of involvement in the Great Train Robbery. |