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1866
Oct 2
| 1866 • The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army (now called "5-star general"); Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank. |
1880
Age: 13y
| 1880 • The SS Columbia, which will be the first outside usage of Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb, is launched at the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works of John Roach and Sons in Chester, Pennsylvania. |
1897
Jan 20
Age: 30y
marriageLucinda E Mustoe Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1897 • April 19 The first Boston Marathon is held, with fifteen men competing, and won by John McDermott."Boston Marathon", in Historical Dictionary of Track and Field, by Peter Matthews (Scarecrow Press, 2012) p40 |
1900
Age: 33y
| 1900 • American temperance agitator Carrie Nation begins her crusade to demolish saloons. |
1930
Age: 63y
| 1930 • President of the United States Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law. |
1937
Mar 18
Age: 70y
| 1937 • Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes swears in Franklin D. Roosevelt for a second term. This is the first time Inauguration Day in the United States occurs on that date, on which it has occurred ever since; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the 20th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. |