1896
Jul 20
| 1896 • Pleasure Beach Blackpool, a popular English theme park (Britain's Biggest Tourist Attraction), is founded by Alderman William George Bean. |
1914
Jun 30
Age: 17y
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marriageCharles William Gartner Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1914 • Treaties of Teoloyucan are signed in the State of Mexico. |
1915
Jun 16
Age: 18y
birth of childRuth Margaret Gartner Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1915 • First United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call, facilitated by a newly invented vacuum tube amplifier, ceremonially inaugurated by Alexander Graham Bell in New York City and his former assistant Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco, California. |
1940
Apr 2
Age: 43y
| 1940 • Norwegian Campaign: First British ground forces land in Norway at Namsos and Harstad. |
1985
Jan 3
Age: 88y
| 1985 • Back to the Future opens in American theatres and ends up being the highest grossing film of 1985 in the United States and the first film in the successful franchise. |