Spouse
1864
Jul 1
| 1864 • The first Quanjude Peking Roast Duck restaurant opens on Qianmen Street in Peking, China. |
1882
Oct 11
Age: 18y
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marriageJohn Dudley Bourn 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1882 • Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age. |
1900
Age: 35y
| 1900 • Second Boer War – Battle of Paardeberg: 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State. |
1959
Mar 19
Age: 94y
| 1959 • Cold War – Antarctic Treaty: 12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a landmark treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent (the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War). |