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1860
Oct 10
| 1860 • Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate the causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians, committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year. |
1893
Feb 22
Age: 32y
marriageAlice A Brown Bloomfield, Indiana, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1893 • Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea drive the first gasoline-powered motorcar in America on public roads in Springfield, Massachusetts. |
1900
Age: 39y
| 1900 • L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published in Chicago, the first of Baum's Oz books chronicling the fictional Land of Oz for children. |
1910
Age: 49y
| 1910 • Ottoman forces capture the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian Revolt of 1910. |
1930
Age: 69y
| 1930 • Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York City and disappears. |
1937
Aug 22
Age: 76y
| 1937 • The new Constitution of Ireland (Bunreacht na hÉireann) comes into force. The Irish Free State becomes "Ireland", and Éamon de Valera becomes the first Taoiseach (prime minister) of the new state. A Presidential Commission (made up the Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann, and the President of the High Court) assumes the powers of the new presidency, pending the popular election of the first President of Ireland in June 1938. The new constitution prohibits divorce. |