♀ Mary Ellen Donahue

1861 - 1929

 

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Mary Ellen Donahue
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James McGinnis Sr.
James McGinnis Sr.
1847 - 1914
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1861


May 9
1861 • American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln issues a Proclamation calling for 75,000 men to confront in the South, "combinations too powerful to be suppressed in the ordinary way".

1884


Jul 16
Age: 23y
1884 The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January 26, 1885).

1887


Feb 20
Age: 25y

1891


Jun 11
Age: 30y
1891 Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope is first displayed at Edison's Laboratory, for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.

1893


Nov 7
Age: 32y
1893 • Prince George, Duke of York (later George V) marries Mary of Teck.

1896


Age: 34y
1896 • The Pontifical University of Maynooth is established by decree of the Vatican.

1929


May 15
Age: 68y
1929 Pope Pius XI emerges from the Apostolic Palace and enters St. Peter's Square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of self-imposed status by the papacy as Prisoner in the Vatican.

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