Spouse
Owned the town saddle shop in Memphis, Missouri
1875
Jul 23
| 1875 • Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then to Spain. |
1910
Age: 34y
| 1910 • George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII. |
1918
Sep 12
Age: 43y
| 1918 • Poland declares its independence from Russia. |
1920
Age: 44y
| 1920 • Irish War of Independence: The Restoration of Order in Ireland Act, passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, receives Royal Assent, providing for Irish Republican Army activists to be tried by court-martial rather than by jury in criminal courts. |
1930
Age: 54y
| 1930 • The television station W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video and audio from the radio orchestra program The Fox Trappers. This broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for the I. J. Fox Furriers company which sponsored the telecast. |
1940
Apr 2
Age: 64y
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residenceMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ George lived at 140 West Jefferson Street in Memphis 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1940 • WWII: Winston Churchill, in a broadcast address to the people of Italy, blames Benito Mussolini for leading his nation to war against the British, contrary to Italy's historic friendship with them: "One man has arrayed the trustees and inheritors of ancient Rome upon the side of the ferocious pagan barbarians." |
1964
Jul 10
Age: 88y
| 1964 • Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Ambassador to South Vietnam, wins the New Hampshire Republican primary. |