Lucy Francis Bourn
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1860


Age: 5y
1860 South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States Union.

1880


Age: 25y
1880 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza signs a treaty of protection with the chief on the large Teke tribe and begins to establish a French protectorate on the north bank of the Congo River.

1910


Age: 55y
1910 • The British Ship "Terra Nova" leaves London on its way toward an Antarctic expedition.

1920


Age: 65y
1920 • General Józef Haller first performs Poland's Wedding to the Sea, a symbolic celebration of the restitution of Polish access to the Baltic Sea.

1950


Apr 4
Age: 96y

1937


Mar 29
Age: 83y
1937 • The first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Aerobile, makes its initial flight.
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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 • At the age of 70, legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra on radio for the first time, beginning his successful 17-year tenure with that orchestra. This first concert consists of music by Vivaldi (at a time when he was still seldom played), Mozart, and Brahms. Millions tune in to listen, including U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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