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1854
Jan 6
| 1854 • Professor Benjamin Silliman of Yale University is the first person to fractionate petroleum into its individual components by distillation. |
1860
Age: 5y
| 1860 • The German association football club TSV 1860 München is founded. |
1873
Dec 25
Age: 19y
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marriageAlva Washington Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1873 • The New York stock market crash triggers the Panic of 1873, part of the Long Depression. |
1874
Nov 28
Age: 20y
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birth of childFred Marcus Johnson Hitt, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 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]. |
1879
Nov 11
Age: 25y
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birth of childChandler Allen Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 7 Sources ⇓ |
| 1879 • The Hall effect is discovered by Dr. Edwin Hall. |
1880
Age: 25y
| 1880 • The first cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio. |
1900
Age: 45y
| 1900 • Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China, demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined. |
1910
Age: 55y
1920
Age: 65y
| 1920 • Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia. |
1930
Age: 75y
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residenceMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Living with her brother Joseph 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1930 • Laurence Olivier marries Jill Esmond. |
1950
Apr 4
Age: 96y
| 1950 • Shirley Temple announces her retirement from show business. |
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 ⇓ |
| 1937 • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is published. |
after
Mar 29
1937
Mar 29
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burialHitt, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Buried in the Richland Cemetery, Scotland County, Missouri 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1937 • CBS broadcasts a two-and-a-half hour memorial concert nationwide on radio in memory of George Gershwin, live from the Hollywood Bowl. Many celebrities appear, including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons, and members of the original cast of Porgy and Bess. The concert is recorded and released complete years later in what is excellent sound for its time, on CD. The Los Angeles Philharmonic is the featured orchestra. |