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1854
Jan 6
| June 21, 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. |
1860
Age: 5y
| May 15, 1860 • Battle of Calatafimi: Troops under Giuseppe Garibaldi defeat the army of Naples in Sicily, during the Second Italian independence war. |
1873
Dec 25
Age: 19y
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marriageAlva Washington Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1873 • Alexander Mackenzie becomes the second Prime Minister of Canada. |
1874
Nov 28
Age: 20y
| August 11, 1874 • Battle of Oteiza (Third Carlist War): Two months after Government forces were repulsed from Carlist-held Estella, in Navarre, Republican General Domingo Moriones made a fresh diversionary attack a few miles to the southeast at Oteiza. In heavy fighting Moriones secured a costly tactical victory over Carlist General Torcuato Mendíri, but the war continued another 18 months before Estella finally fell. |
1879
Nov 11
Age: 25y
| December 31, 1879 • Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time in Menlo Park, New Jersey. |
1880
Age: 25y
| December 30, 1880 • The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president. |
1900
Age: 45y
| 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: 55y
| May 6, 1910 • George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII. |
1920
Age: 65y
| April 23, 1920 • The Grand National Assembly of Turkey is founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Ankara. It denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution. |
1930
Age: 75y
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residenceMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Living with her brother Joseph 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1930 • A huge hurricane on the Caribbean Sea demolishes most of the city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. |
1950
Apr 4
Age: 96y
| January 29, 1950 • Lord Balfour criticizes the fact that rationing is still in force in Britain. |
1937
Mar 29
Age: 83y
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deathMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Her brother, Charles Albert Bourn, passed away 11 days prior 3 Sources ⇓ |
| July 20, 1937 • The Geibeltbad Pirna is opened in Dresden, Germany. |
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1937
Mar 29
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burialHitt, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Buried in the Richland Cemetery, Scotland County, Missouri 1 Source ⇓ |
| January 31, 1937 • The USSR executes 31 people for alleged Trotskyism. |