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1879
Dec
| 1879 • At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes the global adoption of standard time. |
1891
Age: 10y
| 1891 • Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope is first displayed at Edison's Laboratory, for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs. |
1901
Age: 20y
residenceEdinbourgh St Cuthbert, Midlothian, Scotland ⇓ She was a lodging house keeper with her sister. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1901 • Katsura Tarō becomes Prime Minister of Japan. |
1904
Age: 23y
| 1904 • The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson. |
1904
Oct 10
Age: 24y
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marriageHerbert H Hall Manhattan, New York, New York, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1904 • The first large-scale bodybuilding competition in America takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. |
1905
Aug 12
Age: 25y
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birth of childCecelia Mary Hall New Jersey, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1905 • Australian Conservative leader Richard Butler takes office as Premier of South Australia. |
1909
Dec 13
Age: 30y
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birth of childHerbert Johnson Hall Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1909 • The Association football team Sport Club Internacional is founded in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
1912
Sep 12
Age: 32y
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birth of childElsie Jean Hall Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1912 • The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter. |
1920
Age: 39y
| 1920 • Polish–Soviet War: Poland sues for peace with Bolshevist Russia (refused). |
1930
Apr 8
Age: 50y
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residenceBridgewater, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Herbert Hall is working as a Gas Station Attendant 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1930 • Pavel Molchanov launches a radiosonde from Pavlovsk in the Soviet Union. |
1940
Apr 19
Age: 60y
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residenceBridgewater, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ The Census indicates Herbert is no longer physically able to work 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1940 • California's first modern freeway, the future State Route 110, opens to traffic in Pasadena, California, as the Arroyo Seco Parkway (now the Pasadena Freeway). |
1950
Apr 10
Age: 70y
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residenceBridgewater, Beaver, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Cecelia is a postal worker 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1950 • The game show Truth or Consequences debuts on television. |
1961
Nov 14
Age: 81y
| 1961 • In the U.S., the Walt Disney anthology television series, renamed Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, moves from ABC to NBC after seven years on the air, and begins telecasting its programs in color for the first time. Years later, after Disney's death, the still-on-the-air program will be renamed The Wonderful World of Disney. |