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1878
Mar 11
| 1878 • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) opens as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in the United States. |
1897
Sep 7
Age: 19y
| 1897 • S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 begins. The ill-fated expedition to fly over the Arctic results in the death of the entire team within months. |
1900
Age: 21y
birth of childElizabeth Louise Hammond Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1900 • Dr. Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University announces a theory about the cause of the Earth's magnetism. |
1901
Feb 20
Age: 22y
birth of childJames Miller Hammond Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1901 • The American yacht Columbia defeats the British Shamrock in the America's Cup yachting race. |
1902
Age: 23y
birth of childSamual Miller Hammond Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1902 • Capital of French Indochina moved from Saigon (in Cochinchina) to Hanoi (Tonkin). |
1920
Jan 13
Age: 41y
| 1920 • The Netherlands refuses to extradite the German Kaiser. |
1924
Aug 26
Age: 46y
| 1924 • Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin immediately begins to purge his rivals to clear the way for his leadership. |