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1856
Mar 24
| 1856 • Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces (the "Sacking of Lawrence"). |
1878
Jan 13
Age: 21y
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birth of childBenjamin Franklin Pile Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1878 • A match race between champion thoroughbred racehorses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty draws more than 30,000 fans to Louisville and insprires the folk song, Molly and Tenbrooks. |
1880
Age: 23y
| 1880 • The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana. |
1882
Age: 25y
| 1882 • The Triple Alliance is formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. |
1886
Jun 2
Age: 30y
| 1886 • The Folies Bergère stages its first revue in Paris. |
1889
May 3
Age: 33y
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birth of childAlta Verlee Pile Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1889 • Louise, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom, marries Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife. |
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Age: 34y
1891
Age: 34y
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birth of childAda Edith Pile Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1891 • The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with maestro Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor. |
1894
Apr 1
Age: 38y
| 1894 • Sir William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh discover the first noble gas, argon. |
1897
Mar 24
Age: 40y
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birth of childHollis L Pile 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1897 • The International Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority is founded. |
1941
Jul 16
Age: 85y
| 1941 • NBC television begins commercial operation on WNBT on channel 1. The world's first legal TV commercial, for Bulova watches, occurs at 2:29 PM over WNBT before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. The 10-second spot displayed a picture of a clock superimposed on a map of the United States, accompanied by the voice-over "America runs on Bulova time." http://www.bulova.com/about/about.aspxhttp://jeff560.tripod.com/chronotv.html As a one-off special, the first quiz show called "Uncle Bee" was telecast on WNBT's inaugural broadcast day, followed later the same day by Ralph Edwards hosting the second game show broadcast on United States television, Truth or Consequences, as simulcast on radio and TV and sponsored by Ivory soap. Weekly broadcasts of the show commenced in 1956, with Bob Barker. |