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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 U.S. Constitutional Union Party holds its convention and nominates John Bell for President of the United States. |
1873
Dec 25
Age: 19y
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marriageAlva Washington Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1873 • A peace treaty is signed between Imperial Russia and the Khanate of Khiva, making the khanate a Russian protectorate. |
1874
Nov 28
Age: 20y
| 1874 • The Agra canal opens in India. |
1879
Nov 11
Age: 25y
| 1879 • The English Catholic convert John Henry Newman is elevated to Cardinal. |
1880
Age: 25y
| 1880 • The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president. |
1900
Age: 45y
| 1900 • L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published in Chicago, the first of Baum's Oz books chronicling the fictional Land of Oz for children. |
1910
Age: 55y
| 1910 • The Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination. |
1920
Age: 65y
| 1920 • The National Football League is established as the American Professional Football Association. |
1930
Age: 75y
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residenceMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Living with her brother Joseph 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1930 • The television station W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video and audio from the radio orchestra program The Fox Trappers. This broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for the I. J. Fox Furriers company which sponsored the telecast. |
1950
Apr 4
Age: 96y
| 1950 • The Israeli government recognizes the People's Republic of China. |
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 • Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Pingxingguan: The Communist Chinese National Revolutionary Army defeats the Japanese. |
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 • Aden becomes a British crown colony. |