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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 • The Johns Hopkins University Press, America's oldest university press. |
1880
Age: 24y
| 1880 • France annexes Tahiti. |
1882
Age: 26y
| 1882 • British gunboats enter Monrovia, with Arthur Havelock demanding that Liberia cede disputed territory to the British colony of Sierra Leone of which he is Governor. |
1886
Jun 2
Age: 31y
| 1886 • A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas. |
1889
May 3
Age: 34y
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birth of childAlta Verlee Pile Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1889 • Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over what will become Eritrea. |
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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 • James Naismith invents basketball. |
1894
Apr 1
Age: 38y
| 1894 • Major Republican landslide in the United States House of Representatives elections, which sets the stage for the decisive presidential election of 1896. |
1897
Mar 24
Age: 41y
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birth of childHollis L Pile 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1897 • The First Zionist Congress convenes in Basel, Switzerland. |
1937
Nov 30
Age: 82y
| 1937 • October 21 – Spanish Civil War: The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists' hands; Republican forces in Gijon, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists. |