♀ Jennie Linn Sims

1883 - 1970

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

1883


Jul 30
1883 Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Black Arrow first appears as a serial in the British magazine Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature as by "Captain George North". Stevenson completes writing it at the end of the summer in France.

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 • The Rowlatt Act is passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in London, indefinitely extending the emergency provisions of the Defence of India Act 1915.
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1922


Age: 38y

1930


Age: 46y
1930 • The television station W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video and audio from the radio orchestra program The Fox Trappers. This broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for the I. J. Fox Furriers company which sponsored the telecast.

1940


Age: 56y
1940 • U.S. politics: The Democratic Party begins its national convention in Chicago, and nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term as president.

1970


Sep 1
Age: 87y
1970 • The Asian and Australian tour of Pope Paul VI ends.

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