♂ Leland Stanford Johnson

1909 - 1977

 

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Leland Stanford Johnson
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Beulah Carol Herrin
Beulah Carol Herrin
1913 - 2000
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1909


Feb 14
1909 Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and four Inuit explorers, Ootah, Ooqueah, Seegloo, and Egigingwah, come within a few miles of the North Pole.[http://www.explorers.org/index.php/about/history/north_pole "North Pole."] The Explorer's Club. Accessed 5 Feb 2014.

1930


Age: 20y
1930 • British airship R100 sets out for a successful 78-hour passage to Canada.

1931


May 9
Age: 22y
1931 • German Chancellor Dr. Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the Creditanstalt, has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse.

1940


Apr 16
Age: 31y
1940 • In the land battle of Narvik, German forces retire giving the Allies their first victory on land in the war; however, the British have already decided to evacuate Narvik.

1977


Aug 12
Age: 68y

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