♀ 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: Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union.

1884


Jul 16
Age: 23y

1887


Feb 20
Age: 25y
1887 • King Kalākaua of Hawai'i is forced by anti-monarchists to sign the 'Bayonet Constitution', stripping the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority as well as disfranchising most native Hawaiians, all Asians and the poor.

1891


Jun 11
Age: 30y
1891 Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time, in the issue dated July.

1893


Nov 7
Age: 32y
1893 Colorado women are granted the right to vote.

1896


Age: 34y
1896 • The first known women's basketball game between two colleges is played between Stanford and California.

1929


May 15
Age: 68y
1929 29Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).

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