Mary Theadore Kidd
Spouse

1900


Age: 22y
1900 • The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

1940


Age: 62y
1940 • In Lascaux, France, 17,000-year-old cave paintings are discovered by a group of young Frenchmen hiking through Southern France. The paintings depict animals and date to the Stone Age.

1950


Apr 29
Age: 72y
1950 Robert Schuman presents his proposal for the creation of a pan-European organisation, which he believes to be indispensable to the maintenance of permanently peaceful relations between the different nations of the continent. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.

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