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Paul graduated in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and was chemist for the Atlantic Refining Co. for a number of years until at the age of twenty-three, in company with his brother Isaac, he went prospecting in Wyoming where he was blinded by dynamite.
1875
Mar 20
| 1875 • ICRM renamed International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). |
1899
Age: 23y
occupationPennsylvania, USA ⇓ He worked for the Atlantic Refining Co. as a chemist until he was twenty three years old, having previously graduated in chemistry from the University of Pennsylavania. While later prospecting with his brother Isaac in Wyoming, he would be blinded by dynamite around the age of twenty five or twenty six. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1899 • Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, the first Association football club in Iceland, is established in the island's capital, Reykjavík. |
1901
Age: 25y
occupationHim and his wife started a poultry business, and by 1927 they had 2000 birds. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1901 • U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region. |
1901
Mar 26
Age: 26y
marriageLavinia Pearce Woodbury, New Jersey, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1901 • William S. Harley draws up plans for his first prototype motorcycle. |
1905
Age: 29y
residenceCumberland County, New Jersey, USA ⇓ He is living with his brother Isaac's family. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1905 • Mata Hari introduces her exotic dance act in Paris. |
1910
Apr 28
Age: 35y
1915
Age: 39y
| 1915 • Lassen Peak, one of the Cascade Volcanoes in California, erupts, sending an ash plume 30,000 feet in the air and devastating the nearby area with pyroclastic flows and lahars. It is the last volcano to erupt in the contiguous United States until the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. |
1917
Age: 41y
| 1917 • The British Desert Mounted Corps begins the Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe in the direction of Hebron and Jerusalem. |
1920
Age: 44y
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residenceFranklin, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA ⇓ Paul is a Poultry Farmer 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1920 • In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany. |
1930
Apr 2
Age: 55y
| 1930 • The chocolate chip cookie is invented by Ruth Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. |
1940
Age: 64y
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residenceFranklin Township, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA ⇓ Paul's marital status shows single as of 1940 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1940 • WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact. |