Chester T Eddings
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1910


Sep 3

1914


Jun 11
Age: 3y
1914 • The New York Stock Exchange re-opens, having been closed since August 1 except for bond trading.

1920


Age: 9y

1930


Age: 19y
1930 • The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty to regulate submarine warfare and limit naval shipbuilding.

1940


Apr 22
Age: 29y
1940 Winston Churchill tells the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, "We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight on the beaches... on the landing grounds... in the fields and the streets.... We shall never surrender."

1986


Sep 23
Age: 76y
1986 Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th Century (the first visit was in 1910).

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