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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 first Convention of Peking formally ends the Second Opium War. |
1873
Dec 25
Age: 19y
marriageAlva Washington Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
1873 • Emancipation Day for Puerto Rico: Slaves are freed (with a few exceptions). |
1874
Nov 28
Age: 20y
birth of childFred Marcus Johnson Hitt, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
1874 • Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward patent the first incandescent lamp with an electric light bulb. |
1879
Nov 11
Age: 25y
birth of childChandler Allen Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 7 Sources ⇓ |
1879 • Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak, establishing an Afghan state. |
1880
Age: 25y
1880 • France annexes Tahiti. |
1900
Age: 45y
1900 • American temperance agitator Carrie Nation begins her crusade to demolish saloons. |
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. |
1920
Age: 65y
1920 • Prohibition in the United States begins with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect. |
1930
Age: 75y
residenceMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Living with her brother Joseph 1 Source ⇓ |
1930 • The Lapua Movement marches in Helsinki, Finland. |
1937
Mar 29
Age: 83y
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. |
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Mar 29
1937
Mar 29
burialHitt, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Buried in the Richland Cemetery, Scotland County, Missouri 1 Source ⇓ |
1937 • The first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Aerobile, makes its initial flight. |