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1898
Mar 20
| 1898 • William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover neon. |
1900
Age: 1y
| 1900 • Two U.S. Navy cruisers are sent to Central America to protect American interests in a dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. |
1910
Age: 11y
| 1910 • Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero proclaims the elections of 1910 null and void, and calls for an armed revolution at 6 p.m. against the illegitimate presidency/dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. |
1920
Age: 21y
| 1920 • Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty: The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic recognizes independent Lithuania. |
1925
Age: 26y
birth of childJoan M Clinger Oil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ |
| 1925 • The city's first enclosed double-decker buses are introduced. |
1929
Age: 30y
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marriageErma Hogue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1929 • All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues), by Erich Maria Remarque, is published in book form. |
1940
Age: 41y
| 1940 • WWII: The Soviet Union annexes the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in what becomes regarded as an early example of Soviet imperialism. |
1950
Jun 30
Age: 52y
| 1950 • St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
1971
Dec 1
Age: 73y
| 1971 • President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system. He also imposes a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents. |