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Children
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1897
Nov 30
| 1897 • The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris. |
1900
Jun 8
Age: 2y
| 1900 • The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard. |
1917
Age: 19y
1928
Nov 26
Age: 30y
marriageDona Jane Record Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1928 • March 15 incident: The Japanese government cracks down on socialists and communists. |
1929
Oct
Age: 31y
birth of childEleanor L McGinnis |
| 1929 • The Albanian missionary sister Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa, arrives in Calcutta from Ireland to begin her work in India. |
1935
Age: 37y
birth of childPatricia McGinnis Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ |
1940
Age: 42y
| 1940 • Plutonium is first synthesized in the laboratory by a team led by Glenn T. Seaborg and Edwin McMillan at the University of California, Berkeley. |
1976
Jun 28
Age: 78y
| 1976 • After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain until 1999, setting what was likely then a record for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network. That record is broken by The Ten Commandments in 1996, which began its annual network telecasts on ABC in 1973 and is still (as of 2012) telecast by that network. |