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1895
Mar 16
| 1895 • Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. |
1895
Apr 21
Age: 1m
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baptismOil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ He was baptized "Heinrich Franz Lenser" at Good Hope church. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1895 • Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts. |
1917
Age: 21y
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militaryVenango County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ During World War 1, he worked under base hospital 57, which served in France. The photo is of base Hospital No. 57, which "took over a large school building and functioned...as a part of the Paris district. There the normal bed capacity of the hospital was 1,800, distributed in 75 wards; but during October, 1918, as many as 2,000 sick and wounded were in the hospital." The draft notes that he was drafted in 1917, and starting in 1918, he served in the army at the medical department in an "Evac hospital". Base Hospital 57 "sailed from Brest, France, August 13, 1919, and arrived in the United States August 22, 1919, aboard the KaiserineAugusta Victoria, and was demobilized shortly afterwards." 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1917 • Following the October Revolution, Alexandra Kollontai is appointed People's Commissar for Social Welfare in the Council of People's Commissars of the Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the first woman cabinet minister in Europe. |
1920
Age: 24y
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residenceCornplanter, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Worked with his father Albert at a machinist shop. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1920 • The New York Times ridicules the American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard. The newspaper has to recant publicly on July 17, 1969 when the Apollo crew is on its mission to the Moon. |
1922
Sep
Age: 27y
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marriageHelen Louise Clinger Oil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ After their marriage, they moved to 12 Pearl Avenue, Oil City. The house was built in 1900. |
| 1922 • Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of the Governor General and Secretary of State for India to growing pressure for Indianization of the officer cadre of the Indian Army. |
1925
Sep 24
Age: 30y
birth of childJack Clinger Lenser Oil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
1930
Age: 34y
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residenceOil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Was a clerk at the Quaker State oil refinery. 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1930 • Great Depression: President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress to ask for a $150 million public works program to help create jobs and to stimulate the American economy. |
1930
Jan 8
Age: 34y
birth of childLois L Lenser Oil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1930 • A huge hurricane on the Caribbean Sea demolishes most of the city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. |
1940
Age: 44y
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residenceOil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Was a clerk at the Quaker State oil refinery. 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1940 • The Selective Service System lottery is held in Washington, D.C.. |
1942
Apr 27
Age: 47y
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militaryOil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ World War II Draft Registration 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1942 • Propaganda: The Voice of America begins broadcasting. |
1951
Apr 23
Age: 56y
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residenceOil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Henry and Helen are living at 124 East Seventh St. in Oil City 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1951 • Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War. |
1972
Apr 10
Age: 77y
| 1972 • The United States returns Okinawa, occupied and governed since the World War II Battle of Okinawa, to Japan. |