John Thomas Thornton
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Parents
Ida May Shepherd
Ida May Shepherd
1865 - 1902
Spouse
Winnie Alice Shelton
Winnie Alice Shelton
1900 - 1993
Siblings

1920


Nov 30
Age: 25y
1920 Treaty of Moscow (1920): Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.

1922


Age: 26y

birth of child


Wesley Thornton
1922 • Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin, the Kurdish Independence Committee, is founded.

1926


Age: 30y
1926 UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends (the strike began on May 3).

1927


Age: 31y
1927 • The Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army is formed during the Nanchang Uprising.

1930


Age: 34y
1930 • The experimental television station, W9XAP, in Chicago, Illinois, broadcasts the election for the United States Senate, the first time that a senatorial race, with continual tallies of the votes, is televised.

1930


Apr 10
Age: 34y
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.

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