Edwin Parmalee Van Deusen
Parents
Spouse
Claire Elliot Tatem
Claire Elliot Tatem
1883 - 1926
Children
Abigail Van Deusen
Abigail Van Deusen
1905 - 1970
Adelaide Van Deusen
Adelaide Van Deusen
1907 - 1908
Siblings

1900


Age: 15y

1905


Aug 8
Age: 20y
1905 • German Emperor Wilhelm II asserts German equality with France in Morocco, triggering the Tangier or First Moroccan Crisis.

1906


Jul 31
Age: 21y
1906 • The Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to include the right of women to stand as candidates when it adopts universal suffrage.

1918


Sep 12
Age: 33y
1918 • King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria abdicates in the wake of the Bulgarian military collapse in WWI. He is succeeded by his son, Boris III.

1920


Age: 35y
1920 • The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan. It is owned by the Detroit News, the first U.S. radio station owned by a newspaper.

1930


Apr 15
Age: 45y
1930 • The television station W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video and audio from the radio orchestra program The Fox Trappers. This broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for the I. J. Fox Furriers company which sponsored the telecast.

1934


Jan 4
Age: 49y
1934 Commission of Government sworn in as form of direct rule for the Dominion of Newfoundland.

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