Verona Ogg Wiegner
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1878 - 1957

1848


Oct 8
1848 Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.

1878


Jul 10
Age: 29y
1878 • American-born artist James McNeill Whistler's libel case against English critic John Ruskin over a review of the painting Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket (in which Whistler is described as "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face")Ruskin, John (1877-07-02). Fors Clavigera. is decided in the High Court of Justice in London. Whistler wins a farthing in nominal damages and only half of the costs, leading to his bankruptcy, and alienates patrons.

1885


Age: 36y
1885 • The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.

1910


Age: 61y

1915


Age: 66y
1915 • WWI: The Royal Navy battleship HMS Formidable is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat with the loss of 547 crew.

1922


Jun 30
Age: 73y

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