Lucy Francis Bourn
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1854


Jan 6
1854 Crimean WarBattle of Balaclava: The allies gain an overall victory, except for the disastrous cavalry Charge of the Light Brigade, from which only 200 of 700 men survive.

1860


Age: 5y
1860 • German chemist Albert Niemann makes a detailed analysis of the coca leaf, isolating and purifying the alkaloid which he calls cocaine.Niemann, Albert (1860). On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves ("Über eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern", published version of Ph.D. dissertation).

1873


Dec 25
Age: 19y
1873 Battle of Mañeru (Third Carlist War): In continued campaigning in Navarre, Spanish Republican General Domingo Moriones meets a Carlist force under Nicolás Ollo at Mañeru, near Puente de la Reina, in a hard-fought but indecisive action. While both sides claim victory, the Carlists are said to have had the advantage, and a month later Moriones is repulsed in a costly assault further west against Estella

1880


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

1900


Age: 45y

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 The New York Times ridicules the American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard. The newspaper has to recant publicly on July 17, 1969 when the Apollo crew is on its mission to the Moon.

1930


Age: 75y

1937


Mar 29
Age: 83y
1937 • In Moscow, seventeen leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
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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 Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese troops advance toward Nanking.

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