♂ Fred Marcus Johnson

1874 - 1950

Fred Marcus Johnson
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Edna D Wiegner
Edna D Wiegner
1878 - 1957
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Fred was a physician in Gorin, Missouri - he delivered over 2,000 babies during is 50+ years as the town doctor.

1874


Nov 28
1874 May 15 – First exhibition of the group of young painters, Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, at the studio of the photographer Nadar in Paris. Louis Leroy's critical review of it published on 25 April gives rise to the term Impressionism for the movement, with reference to Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise.

1880


Age: 5y
1880 • After having her lights installed by Edison's personnel, the SS Columbia is lit up for the first time at the foot of Wall Street in New York City.

1898


Oct 12
Age: 23y
1898 • Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, J'accuse, is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper L'Aurore, accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism.

1900


Age: 25y
1900 • The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the palace of Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later.

1901


Apr 25
Age: 26y

1910


Age: 35y

1940


Age: 65y
1940 • WWII: Germany invades the neutral countries of Denmark and Norway in Operation Weserübung, opening the Norwegian Campaign. The British Royal Navy attempts to attack elements of the German fleet off Norway. Vidkun Quisling proclaims a new collaborationist regime in Norway. The German invasion of Denmark lasts for about six hours before that country capitulates.

1950


Jul 31
Age: 75y
1950 • The Indonesian government quells riots in the Moluccas.

1950


Aug
1950 Jordan formally annexes the West Bank

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