♀ Jennie Linn Sims

1883 - 1970

Jennie Linn Sims
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Roy Blain Boyd
Roy Blain Boyd
1883 - 1942
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1883


Jul 30
1883 • The University of Texas at Austin opens to students.

1905


Aug
Age: 22y
Roy Blain Boyd Family - 1930 United States Federal Census

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Roy Blain Boyd
They married after they both turned 22 that year.
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1905 • Tsar Nicholas II is forced to grant Russia's first constitution, conceding a national assembly (Duma) with limited powers.

1906


Aug 29
Age: 23y
1906 Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army on July 21, thus ending the Dreyfus affair.
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1919


Age: 35y
1919 British police strike in London and Liverpool for recognition of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers; over 2,000 strikers are dismissed.
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1922


Age: 38y
1922 • In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two).

1924


Age: 40y
1924 George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 P.M. The two mountaineers are never seen alive again.

1930


Age: 46y
1930 • The Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens. This conference approves the use of birth control in limited circumstances, a move away from the Christian views on contraception expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier.

1940


Age: 56y
1940 • WWII: Operation Compass – British forces in North Africa begin their first major offensive with an attack on Italian forces at Sidi Barrani, Egypt.

1970


Sep 1
Age: 87y

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