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1895
| 1895 • Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War begins. |
1919
Age: 24y
marriageMarguerite Mary McGinnis Stanwood, Snohomish, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1919 • Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day. |
1921
Age: 26y
birth of childRobert L Garrison |
| 1921 • Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dub her the first Miss America. |
1924
Age: 29y
birth of childVernon Lloyd Garrison |
| 1924 • Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois; the robbery is later found to have been an inside job. |
1961
Age: 66y
| 1961 • U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives a widely watched TV speech on the Berlin crisis, warning "we will not be driven out of Berlin." Kennedy urges Americans to build fallout shelters, setting off a four-month debate on civil defense. |