Spouse
1912
Jun 30
| 1912 • Roald Amundsen in Hobart, Tasmania, announces his success in reaching the South Pole the previous December. |
1940
Age: 27y
| 1940 • Cartoon character Elmer Fudd makes his debut in the animated short Elmer's Candid Camera. |
1949
Jul
Age: 37y
| 1949 • Operation Priboi: An extensive deportation campaign begins in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltic states to remote areas of the Soviet Union. |
1955
Aug 24
Age: 43y
birth of childMari K McGee |
| 1955 • American cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio discovers the correct number of human chromosomes, forty-six. |
2000
Dec 30
Age: 88y
| 2000 • The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania nominates George W. Bush for President of the United States and Dick Cheney for Vice President. |
2001
Oct 10
Age: 89y
| 2001 • The submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime-Maru near Hawaii. |