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1862
Jul
| 1862 • American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. |
1893
Feb 22
Age: 30y
marriageJoseph Anderson Bourn Bloomfield, Indiana, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1893 • Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea drive the first gasoline-powered motorcar in America on public roads in Springfield, Massachusetts. |
1900
Age: 37y
| 1900 • The Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. |
1910
Age: 47y
| 1910 • The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours. |