Lucy Francis Bourn
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1854


Jan 6
1854 • Battle of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands (which later became part of Finland - in 1920:) The Royal Navy seaman's mate Charles D. Lucas throws a live Russian artillery shell overboard by hand before it explodes, for which he was awarded the first Victoria Cross in 1857.

1874


Nov 28
Age: 20y
1874 Harper's Weekly publishes a cartoon by Thomas Nast which is the first use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party. [http://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/CartoonOfTheDay.asp?Year=2003?Month=November?Date=7].

1880


Age: 25y
1880 Tinius Olsen awarded a United States Patent for the Little Giant Testing Machine

1910


Age: 55y
1910 • The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours.

1950


Apr 4
Age: 96y
1950 • A plane carrying returning rugby fans from Ireland to Wales crashes near Llandow, with the loss of 80 lives.

1937


Mar 29
Age: 83y
1937 • The original production of the musical Me and My Girl opens at the West End Victoria Palace Theatre in London. A later revival of this musical would win an award.
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1937


Mar 29

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Hitt, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓
Buried in the Richland Cemetery, Scotland County, Missouri
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1937 • The coalition government of Léon Blum resigns in France.

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