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1887
Aug 27
| 1887 • Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick invents the contact lens, made of a type of brown glass. |
1900
Jun 15
Age: 12y
| 1900 • The first zeppelin flight is carried out over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. |
1910
Age: 22y
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residenceJefferson, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ Living with Chandler Allen and Lula Bell Johnson 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1910 • The electric streetcars of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7 million riders per year. |
1912
Feb 1
Age: 24y
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marriageMabel Martha McWilliam Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1912 • Sax Rohmer's character Fu Manchu first appears in the first story of The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu in English pulp magazine Story-Teller. |
1914
Age: 26y
birth of childMauretta Mildred Miller Jefferson, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1914 • In Massachusetts, the new Cape Cod Canal opens; it shortens the trip between New York and Boston by 66 miles, but also turns Cape Cod into an island. |
1917
Age: 29y
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militaryScotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ World War I draft registration 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1917 • WWI: Battle of Jerusalem (1917) begins with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force launching attacks against Ottoman forces in the Judean Hills. |
1918
Age: 30y
birth of childLeanna W Miller Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1918 • A new Polish government is declared in Western Galicia (Eastern Europe). |
1920
Age: 32y
| 1920 • Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allied Powers, confirming arrangements for partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. |
1930
Age: 42y
| 1930 • Sergei Eisenstein arrives in Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures; they part ways by October. |
1940
Apr 12
Age: 52y
| 1940 • WW II: The "Eagle Day" strike on southern Great Britain occurs, starting the rapid escalation of the Battle of Britain air offensive of the Luftwaffe against RAF Fighter Command. |
1942
Age: 54y
| 1942 • WWII in the European Theater of Operations: |
1981
Jan 4
Age: 93y
| 1981 • Daylight saving time is introduced in the Soviet Union. |