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1865
Aug 24
| 1865 • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: President of the United States Abraham Lincoln is shot while attending an evening performance of the farce Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Doctors move the unconscious President to a bed in a house across the street. |
about
Age: 26y
1892
Age: 26y
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marriageMinnie Maude Adams Jasper, Jasper, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1892 • Theodoros Deligiannis ends his term as Prime Minister of Greece and Konstantinos Konstantopoulos takes office. |
1892
Oct
Age: 27y
birth of childIda M Shelton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1892 • Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States. |
1895
Mar
Age: 29y
birth of childEva Shelton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
1897
Sep
Age: 32y
birth of childThomas Shelton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1897 • Francis P. Church responds to a letter to the editor that is known as the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" letter. |
1900
Age: 34y
| 1900 • Second Boer War: The British Army relieves the Siege of Mafeking. |
1900
Jan 5
Age: 34y
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birth of childWinnie Alice Shelton Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1900 • The first zeppelin flight is carried out over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. |
1910
Age: 44y
| 1910 • Henry Ford sells 10,000 automobiles. |
1940
Age: 74y
| 1940 • The Holocaust: Franz Rademacher proposes the Madagascar Plan. |
1951
Jan 5
Age: 85y
| 1951 • A research team publishes the Interlingua-English Dictionary. |