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1885
Oct 17
| 1885 • The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor. |
1900
Age: 14y
| 1900 • The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree. |
1910
Age: 24y
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residenceCalcasieu, Louisiana, USA ⇓ Working for the railroad with his Father, Henry Clay Franklin. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1910 • The Union of South Africa is created. |
1911
Age: 25y
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birth of childFrancis Franklin Louisiana, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1911 • Treaty of Berlin brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty led Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara) with Germany forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France gave Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany ceded some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad). |
1913
Age: 27y
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birth of childThelma Franklin Louisiana, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1913 • The Federal Reserve System is created as the central banking system of the United States by Woodrow Wilson's signature of the Federal Reserve Act. |
1920
Age: 34y
| 1920 • A referendum in Switzerland is favorable to joining the League of Nations. |
1930
Age: 44y
| 1930 • The Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens. This conference approves the use of birth control in limited circumstances, a move away from the Christian views on contraception expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier. |
1940
Age: 54y
| 1940 • WWII: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law, which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%. |
1967
Jul 18
Age: 81y
| 1967 • The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians. It signifies Australia's first step in recognising Indigenous rights. |