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1880
Sep 29
| 1880 • Wabash, Indiana becomes the first electrically lit city in the world. |
1939
Jun 27
Age: 58y
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marriageViolet Maxine Constance Lloyd Phillipsburg, Granite, Montana, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1939 • Opening shots of World War II and Invasion of Poland: At 4:45am Central European Time, under cover of darkness, the German WW1-era battleship Schleswig-Holstein quietly slips her moorings at her wharf in Danzig harbor, drifts into the center of the channel, and commences firing on the fortress Westerplatte, a Polish army installation at the mouth of the port of Danzig, Poland. Simultaneously, shock-troops of the German Wehrmacht begin crossing the border into Poland. |
1961
Dec 26
Age: 81y
| 1961 • Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane of 6,587 km/h flying a X-15. |