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1855
Apr 25
| 1855 • Palm oil sales from West Africa to the United Kingdom reach 40,000 tons. |
1878
Jan 13
Age: 22y
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birth of childBenjamin Franklin Pile Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1878 • July 12 – The Congress of Berlin convenes to discuss the Ottoman Empire. |
1880
Age: 24y
| 1880 • Abdur Rahman Khan becomes Emir of Afghanistan. |
1882
Age: 26y
| 1882 • Pogroms in Southern Russia end. |
1886
Jun 2
Age: 31y
| 1886 • Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent Motorwagen (built in 1885). |
1889
May 3
Age: 34y
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birth of childAlta Verlee Pile Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1889 • Yellow fever interrupts the building of the Panama Canal. |
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Age: 35y
1891
Age: 35y
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birth of childAda Edith Pile Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1891 • Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope is first displayed at Edison's Laboratory, for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs. |
1894
Apr 1
Age: 38y
| 1894 • New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. |
1897
Mar 24
Age: 41y
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birth of childHollis L Pile 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1897 • Hiram Percy Maxim develops the muffler in conjunction with the suppressor. |
1937
Nov 30
Age: 82y
| 1937 • The coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth takes place at Westminster Abbey, London. |