Walter Arthur Johnson
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Parents
Israel Cicero Johnson
Israel Cicero Johnson
1842 - 1900
Jane Foster
Jane Foster
1847 - 1893
Spouse
Mary Ellen Gristy
Mary Ellen Gristy
1868 - 1904
Children
Siblings
Mary J Johnson
Mary J Johnson
1869 - 1935
Jesse Johnson
Jesse Johnson
1872 - 1893
Iva Johnson
Iva Johnson
1875 - 1892
Addie Johnson
Addie Johnson
1877 - 1897

1867


Sep 20
1867 Pierre Michaux invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first mass-produced bicycle.

1895


Age: 27y
1895 • The first game of what will become known as rugby league football is played in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.

1897


May 18
Age: 29y
1897 • The French conquers the island of Raiatea and captures the rebel chief Teraupoo, ending the Leeward Islands War and bringing all of the Society Islands under their control.

1899


Age: 31y

birth of child


Charles Arthur Johnson
1899 • The leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss the confederation of Australia as a whole.

1901


Age: 33y

birth of child


Vesta Helen Johnson
1901 • The United Kingdom, Germany and Japan protest at the Sino-Russian agreement on Manchuria.

1910


Age: 42y
1910 • The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster.

1920


Age: 52y
1920 • The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan. It is owned by the Detroit News, the first U.S. radio station owned by a newspaper.

1929


Nov 24
Age: 62y
1929 • First appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement, Le Petit Vingtième.

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