Laura Hanna Plaster
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Parents
Michael Plaster
Michael Plaster
1813 - 1892
Ruth Burress
Ruth Burress
1819 - 1878
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1856


Feb 28
1856 Borax deposits are discovered in large quantities by John Veatch.

1860


Age: 3y
1860 • German chemist Albert Niemann makes a detailed analysis of the coca leaf, isolating and purifying the alkaloid which he calls cocaine.Niemann, Albert (1860). On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves ("Über eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern", published version of Ph.D. dissertation).

1875


Jun 27
Age: 19y
1875 • The Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875) is signed between Japan and Russia.

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