Elizabeth Ellen Plaster
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Parents
Michael Plaster
Michael Plaster
1813 - 1892
Ruth Burress
Ruth Burress
1819 - 1878
Spouse
George W Farlow
George W Farlow
1849 - 1929
Children
Siblings

1860


Age: 10y
1860 • The world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, the (British) HMS Warrior, is launched.

1870


Age: 20y
1870 • The "circle of the sun" flag of Japan is adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships by proclamation of the Daijō-kan.

1874


Age: 24y

1875


Age: 25y

1878


May
Age: 28y
1878 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) opens as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in the United States.

1900


Age: 50y

1938


Jan 29
Age: 88y
1938 Winston Churchill, still believing France and Britain mean to honor their promises to defend Czechoslovakia against Nazi aggression, suggests in a personal note to Neville Chamberlain that His Majesty's Government may want to set up a broad international alliance including the United States (specifically mentioning U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as possibly receptive to the idea) and the Soviet Union.

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