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1898
Mar 20
| 1898 • New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. |
1900
Age: 1y
| 1900 • The second Modern Olympic Games opens in Paris (as part of the Paris World Exhibition). |
1910
Age: 11y
| 1910 • Emperor Sunjong of the Korean Empire abdicates and the country's monarchy is abolished. |
1920
Age: 21y
| 1920 • 25 – Polish–Soviet War: The Red Army is defeated in the Battle of Warsaw. |
1925
Age: 26y
birth of childJoan M Clinger Oil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ |
| 1925 • The British explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon. |
1929
Age: 30y
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marriageErma Hogue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1929 • 29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government). |
1940
Age: 41y
| 1940 • WWII: Mechelen Incident: A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries. |
1950
Jun 30
Age: 52y
| 1950 • Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating the races. |
1971
Dec 1
Age: 73y
| 1971 • The Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed defeat the Social Credit government under Harry E. Strom in a general election, ending 36 years of uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta. |