Lucy Francis Bourn
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1854


Jan 6
1854 • The General Assembly charters the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad to run from Goldsboro through New Bern to the newly created seaport of Morehead City near Beaufort.[http://www.historync.org/railroad-ANCRR.htm CommunicationSolutions/ISI, "Railroad — Atlantic & North Carolina"], North Carolina Business History, 2006, accessed 1 Feb 2010

1860


Age: 5y

1874


Nov 28
Age: 20y
1874 • Indian wars]]: U.S. Army Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie leads his force of 600 men on the successful raid of the last sanctuary of the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne Indian tribes, a village inside the Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, and carries out their removal to the designated Indian reservations in Oklahoma. Frances H. Kennedy, American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) p168

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.

1930


Age: 75y
1930 Charles Creighton and James Hargis of Missouri begin their return journey to Los Angeles using only a reverse gear; the 11,555 km trip lasts 42 days.

1937


Mar 29
Age: 83y
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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 • In a referendum the people of the Irish Free State accept the new Constitution by 685,105 votes to 527,945.

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