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1877
Oct 11
| 1877 • The first college lacrosse game is played between New York University and Manhattan College. |
1900
Age: 22y
| 1900 • The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree. |
1910
Age: 32y
| 1910 • Ottoman forces capture the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian Revolt of 1910. |
1920
Age: 42y
| 1920 • Polish–Soviet War: Polish and anti-Soviet Ukrainian troops attack the Red Army in Soviet Ukraine. |
1930
Age: 52y
| 1930 • Greater Sudbury is incorporated as a city in northern Ontario. |
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. |