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
Children
Siblings

1895


Nov 23
1895 Venezuela Crisis of 1895: President Grover Cleveland signs into law a bill resulting from the proposition of House Resolution 252 by William Lindsay Scruggs and Congressman Leonidas Livingston to the third session of the 53rd Congress of the United States of America. The bill recommends Venezuela and Great Britain settle their dispute by arbitration.

1917


Jun 5
Age: 21y
1917 • Russian General Brusilov begins a major offensive in Galicia, initially advancing towards Lemberg.

1922


Age: 26y

birth of child


Wesley Thornton
1922 • Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.

1926


Age: 30y
1926 Ignacy Moscicki becomes president of Poland.

1927


Age: 31y

1930


Age: 34y
1930 Princess Margaret Rose is born at Glamis Castle in Scotland, younger daughter of Prince Albert, Duke of York (second son of King George V and Queen Mary, and later King George VI) and Elizabeth, Duchess of York, and sister to The Princess Elizabeth.

1930


Apr 10
Age: 34y

1987


Feb 19
Age: 91y
1987 • The New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act is passed, the first of its kind in the world.

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