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1849
May 3
| 1849 • Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office on a Sabbath. Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate is President de jure for a single day. |
1874
Age: 24y
marriageElizabeth Ellen Plaster |
| 1874 • Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa. |
1875
Age: 25y
birth of childMargaretta Farlow Harrisburg, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ |
| 1875 • The Tong wars begin in San Francisco. |
1878
May
Age: 28y
birth of childAlfred Homer Farlow Harrisburg, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ |
| 1878 • American-born artist James McNeill Whistler's libel case against English critic John Ruskin over a review of the painting Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket (in which Whistler is described as "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face")Ruskin, John (1877-07-02). Fors Clavigera. is decided in the High Court of Justice in London. Whistler wins a farthing in nominal damages and only half of the costs, leading to his bankruptcy, and alienates patrons. |
1900
Age: 50y
| 1900 • The U.S. Senate accepts the British-German treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands. |
1929
Jun 28
Age: 80y
| 1929 • The Kingdom of Italy and the Holy See of the Catholic Church sign the Lateran Treaty to establish the Vatican City as an independent sovereign enclave within Rome, resolving the "Roman Question". |