1865
Dec 22
| 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. |
1888
Age: 21y
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birth of childCharles Edmund Raynor Spokane, Washington, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1888 • Handel's Israel in Egypt is recorded onto wax cylinder at The Crystal Palace in London, the earliest known recording of classical music. |
1910
Age: 43y
| 1910 • Slavery in China, which has existed since the Shang dynasty, is now illegal. |
1938
Aug 18
Age: 72y
| 1938 • Arising from The Munich Agreement Hungary is "awarded" the Felvidek region of South Slovakia and Ruthenia. |