William S Thornton
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Parents
Sarah Haworth
Sarah Haworth
1828 - 1900
Henry Thornton
Henry Thornton
1831 - 1902
Siblings

1865


Aug 16
1865 • Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, to resist Reconstruction and intimidate "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags", as well as to repress the freedpeople.

1890


Mar 22
Age: 24y
1890 1890 British Ultimatum: the United Kingdom demands Portugal withdraw its forces from the land between the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola (most of present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia)

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