Andrew Fuller Taylor
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Anna Lavinia Taylor
Anna Lavinia Taylor
1908 - 1962
James Fuller Taylor
James Fuller Taylor
1910 - 1984
Cyril William Taylor
Cyril William Taylor
1912 - 1988
Paul Stewart Taylor
Paul Stewart Taylor
1919 - 1973

1885


Feb 7
1885 Canadian Pacific Railway: In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on a railway extending across Canada. Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald considers the project to be vital to Canada due to the exponentially greater potential for military mobility.

1908


Mar 30
Age: 23y
1908 King Leopold II of Belgium formally relinquishes his personal control of the Congo Free State to Belgium (becoming Belgian Congo) following evidence collected by Roger Casement of maladministration.

1910


May 8
Age: 25y
1910 • The Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination.

1926


Jun 17
Age: 41y
1926 • Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the Air Corps Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia. Hickam parachutes to safety.

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