1901
Nov 24
1925
Age: 23y
birth of childJoan M Clinger Oil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ |
| 1925 • F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. |
1929
Age: 27y
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marriageGeorge C Clinger Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1929 • First appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement, Le Petit Vingtième. |
1940
Age: 38y
| 1940 • In Lascaux, France, 17,000-year-old cave paintings are discovered by a group of young Frenchmen hiking through Southern France. The paintings depict animals and date to the Stone Age. |
1984
Jun 12
Age: 82y
| 1984 • The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso. |