♀ Jennie Linn Sims

1883 - 1970

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

1883


Jul 30
1883 Zulu King Cetshwayo barely escapes a rebel attack with his life.

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 • The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa, at the Premier Mine.

1906


Aug 29
Age: 23y
1906 Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
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1919


Age: 35y
1919 • The League of Red Cross Societies is founded in Paris.
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1922


Age: 38y
1922 • A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.

1924


Age: 40y

1930


Age: 46y
1930 Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest at the British monopoly on salt; more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5.

1940


Age: 56y
1940 • The Churchill war ministry in the United Kingdom offers a Franco-British Union to Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France, in the hope of preventing France from agreeing to an armistice with Germany, but Reynaud resigns when his own cabinet refuses to accept it.

1970


Sep 1
Age: 87y
1970 Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a republic.

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