Lucy Francis Bourn
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1874


Nov 28
Age: 20y
1874 Battle of Oteiza (Third Carlist War): Two months after Government forces were repulsed from Carlist-held Estella, in Navarre, Republican General Domingo Moriones made a fresh diversionary attack a few miles to the southeast at Oteiza. In heavy fighting Moriones secured a costly tactical victory over Carlist General Torcuato Mendíri, but the war continued another 18 months before Estella finally fell.

1880


Age: 25y
1880 • After having her lights installed by Edison's personnel, the SS Columbia is lit up for the first time at the foot of Wall Street in New York City.

1900


Age: 45y
1900 • The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal across Central America in Nicaragua.

1910


Age: 55y
1910 • The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster.

1930


Age: 75y
1930 • The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time in the United States.

1937


Mar 29
Age: 83y
1937 • A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
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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 William H. Hastie becomes the first African American appointed to a federal judgeship in the United States.

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