♀ Lucy Francis Bourn

1854 - 1937

Lucy Francis Bourn
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1860


Age: 5y
1860 • French typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings the French folk song "Au Clair de la Lune" to his phonautograph; producing the world's earliest known sound recording (however, it is not rediscovered until 2008).

1873


Dec 25
Age: 19y
1873 • The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, later Ohio State University, opens its doors with 25 students, including 2 women.

1880


Age: 25y
1880 • The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven.

1930


Age: 75y
1930 German election, 1930: National Socialists win 107 seats in the German Parliament, the Reichstag (18.3% of all the votes), making them the second largest party.

1950


Apr 4
Age: 96y
1950 Korean War: While in an F-80, United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown intercepts 2 North Korean MiG-15s near the Yalu River and shoots them down in the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history.

1937


Mar 29
Age: 83y
1937 • A guard takes his place at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Washington, D.C.; continuous guard has been maintained there ever since.
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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 encyclical Mit brennender Sorge ("With burning concern") of Pope Pius XI is published in Germany in the German language. Largely the work of Cardinals von Faulhaber and Pacelli, it condemns breaches of the 1933 Reichskonkordat agreement signed between the Nazi government and the Catholic Church, and criticises Nazism's views on race and other matters incompatible with Catholicism.

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