1858
Dec 26
1858 • May 1 – Battle of Grahovac (between Ottoman and Montenegrin forces) |
1879
Jun 26
Age: 20y
marriageCharles Albert Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1879 • Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric light bulb (it lasts 13½ hours before burning out). |
1880
Age: 20y
1880 • The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven. |
1881
Age: 21y
birth of childDona Edith Johnson |
1881 • Virgil Earp is ambushed in Tombstone and loses the use of his left arm. |
1900
Jun 20
Age: 41y
1900 • Dr. Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University announces a theory about the cause of the Earth's magnetism. |
1910
Age: 50y
1910 • Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom under Nicholas I. |
1920
Age: 60y
1920 • 16 – Military occupation of Constantinople by British Empire forces acting for the Allied Powers against the Turkish National Movement. Retrospectively, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey regards this as the dissolution of the Ottoman regime in Istanbul.Declaration of 1 November 1922. |
1935
Jun 8
Age: 76y
1935 • The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency opens in Chicago, Illinois. |