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1835
1835 • The Ragamuffin War begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
1858
Sep 30
Age: 23y
marriageThomas R Hicks Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1858 • The Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad opens, operating 95 miles from Goldsboro, North Carolina to New Bern, North Carolina.[http://www.historync.org/railroads.htm CommunicationSolutions/ISI, "Railroads — prior to the Civil War"], North Carolina Business History, 2006, accessed 1 Feb 2010 |
1859
Apr 1
Age: 24y
birth of childAnna Mason Hicks 1 Source ⇓ |
1859 • The so-called Pig War border dispute between the Americans and the British on the San Juan Islands begins by the death of the namesake pig. |
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1912
Age: 77y
1912 • French aviator Henri Salmet makes the first nonstop flight from Paris to London, in three hours.Flight, 16 March 1912, p. 238 [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1912/1912%20-%200238.html London-Paris Record Flight ] ##claim retracted see Flight, 23 March 1912, p. 264 [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1912/1912%20-%200264.html M. Salmet's London-Paris Flight] ## |