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1897
Nov 30
1900
Jun 8
Age: 2y
| 1900 • Second Boer War: The British Army relieves the Siege of Mafeking. |
1917
Age: 19y
| 1917 • The United States enacts the Espionage Act. |
1928
Nov 26
Age: 30y
marriageDona Jane Record Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1928 • English cricketer Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July. |
1929
Oct
Age: 31y
birth of childEleanor L McGinnis |
| 1929 • The Grand Teton National Park is established by the United States Congress. |
1935
Age: 37y
birth of childPatricia McGinnis Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1935 • Dust Bowl: The great dust storm in the United States hits eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma the hardest. It will be made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads". |
1940
Age: 42y
| 1940 • WWII: The Dunkirk evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force starts. |
1976
Jun 28
Age: 78y
| 1976 • Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, US, begin falling ill with a form of pneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreak of Legionnaires' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees. |