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1846
Feb 1
| 1846 • Abraham Pineo Gesner develops a process to refine a liquid fuel, which he calls kerosene, from coal, bitumen or oil shale. |
1868
Feb 26
Age: 22y
marriageSamuel Johnston Colinton, Midlothian, Scotland ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1868 • The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted, including the Citizenship Clause and the Equal Protection Clause, legally, if not actually, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and equal protection and all persons in the United States due process of law. |
1871
Age: 24y
| 1871 • The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York. |
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Dec
Age: 33y
1879
Dec
Age: 33y
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birth of childCecelia Jessie Johnston Wandsworth, London, England ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1879 • New York City's Gilmore's Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt, and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue. |
1891
Age: 44y
| 1891 • In the FA Cup quarter final in English Association football, a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the goal line. An indirect free kick is awarded, since the penalty kick, proposed the previous year by William McCrum, has not yet been implemented. This event probably changes public opinion on the penalty kick, seen previously as 'an Irishman's motion'. |