Benjamin Franklin Wilkes
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Jaretta Ann Lowry
Jaretta Ann Lowry
1852 - 1920

1848


Dec 29
1848 • The U.S. barque Ocean Monarch is burnt out off the Great Orme, North Wales, with the loss of 178, chiefly emigrants.

1883


Dec
Age: 34y
1883 • In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes 12 people.

1886


Apr
Age: 37y
1886 • The first train load of oranges leaves Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.

1889


Age: 39y
1889 • Following a failed attempt at a coup, French defense minister Georges Boulanger is forced to flee the country.

1924


May 11
Age: 75y
1924 • Astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.

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