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1879
Dec
| 1879 • Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric light bulb (it lasts 13½ hours before burning out). |
1891
Age: 10y
| 1891 • The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with maestro Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor. |
1901
Age: 20y
residenceEdinbourgh St Cuthbert, Midlothian, Scotland ⇓ She was a lodging house keeper with her sister. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1901 • The Club Atlético River Plate is founded in Argentina. |
1904
Age: 23y
| 1904 • Charles Dillon Perrine discovers Jupiter's largest irregular satellite, Himalia. |
1904
Oct 10
Age: 24y
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marriageHerbert H Hall Manhattan, New York, New York, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1904 • James Joyce walks to Ringsend with Nora Barnacle; he later uses this date (Bloomsday) as the setting for his novel Ulysses. |
1905
Aug 12
Age: 25y
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birth of childCecelia Mary Hall New Jersey, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1905 • The Wright Brothers' third aeroplane (Wright Flyer III) stays in the air for 39 minutes with Wilbur piloting, the first aeroplane flight lasting over half an hour. |
1909
Dec 13
Age: 30y
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birth of childHerbert Johnson Hall Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1909 • August 2 – "Tragic Week": The city of Barcelona experiences a workers' uprising. |
1912
Sep 12
Age: 32y
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birth of childElsie Jean Hall Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1912 • Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry trees to be planted in Washington, D.C., to symbolize the friendship between the two countries. |
1920
Age: 39y
| 1920 • Canonization of Joan of Arc. Over 30,000 people attend the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family. Pope Benedict XV presides over the rite, for which the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is richly decorated. |
1930
Apr 8
Age: 50y
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residenceBridgewater, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Herbert Hall is working as a Gas Station Attendant 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1930 • England cricketer Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1,110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians. |
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 • Olympic Games, assigned to Tokyo, Japan, and later to Helsinki, Finland, are suspended due to WWII. |
1950
Apr 10
Age: 70y
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residenceBridgewater, Beaver, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Cecelia is a postal worker 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1950 • The last Kuomintang troops surrender in mainland China. |
1961
Nov 14
Age: 81y
| 1961 • The Antarctic Treaty comes into effect. |