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1870
Jun 15
| 1870 • Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. |
1870
Age: 6m
| 1870 • Death of English novelist Charles Dickens at Gads Hill Place in Kent, leaving his last book The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished. |
1891
Jul 20
Age: 21y
marriageMary Candell Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ Married in St. Patrick's Church |
| 1891 • Brahmin teacher and nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak begins agitation for Indian home Rule. |
1892
Sep 19
Age: 22y
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birth of childEdward Thomas Fisher Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1892 • Redondo Beach, California, USA is founded. |
1894
May 1
Age: 23y
birth of childFrancis Joseph Fisher Jr. Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ |
| 1894 • Manchester City Football Club is formed in England. |
1896
Jan 13
Age: 25y
birth of childAnastasia Mary Fisher Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ |
| 1896 • Oscar Wilde's play Salomé premieres in Paris. |
1897
Sep 20
Age: 27y
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birth of childWilliam Mathew Peter Fisher Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1897 • The Battle of Saragarhi: Twenty-one Sikhs of the 36th Sikh of the Sikh Regiment of British India, defend an army post against 10,000 Afghan and Orakzai tribesmen. The battle occurs in the North-West Frontier Province Afghanistan, now a part of Pakistan, which then formed part of British India. |
1899
Jul 12
Age: 29y
birth of childCatherine Loretta Fisher Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ |
| 1899 • Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. It is disbanded in 1956. |
1901
Feb 7
Age: 30y
birth of childLeone Marguerite Fisher Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ |
| 1901 • The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida. |
1902
Sep 11
Age: 32y
birth of childMary Cecelia Fisher Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ |
| 1902 • Completion of Paul Doumer Bridge linking both sections of Hanoi. |
1904
Jun 28
Age: 34y
birth of childJohn Sylvester Fisher Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ |
| 1904 • British expedition to Tibet: The British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa in Tibet. |
1906
Nov 7
Age: 36y
birth of childArthur Benedict Fisher Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ |
| 1906 • The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England. |
1908
Nov 18
Age: 38y
birth of childVeronica Ellen Fisher Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ |
| 1908 • Emile Cohl makes the first fully animated film, Fantasmagorie. |
1920
Age: 49y
| 1920 • The United Kingdom cedes its brief control of the key Black Sea port of Batum to the Democratic Republic of Georgia. |
1949
Apr 20
Age: 78y
| 1949 • November 17 Second trial of Alger Hiss begins in New York, again with Whittaker Chambers as principal witness |