Ellen Frances Brown
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Hood Summerl Somers
Hood Summerl Somers
1874 - 1926

1838

1838 Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.

1874


Nov 2
Age: 36y
1874 • Indian wars]]: U.S. Army Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie leads his force of 600 men on the successful raid of the last sanctuary of the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne Indian tribes, a village inside the Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, and carries out their removal to the designated Indian reservations in Oklahoma. Frances H. Kennedy, American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) p168

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