Benjamin Franklin Wilkes
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Jaretta Ann Lowry
Jaretta Ann Lowry
1852 - 1920

1848


Dec 29

1883


Dec
Age: 34y
1883 Zulu King Cetshwayo barely escapes a rebel attack with his life.

1886


Apr
Age: 37y
1886 Emile Berliner starts work that leads to the invention of the gramophone.

1889


Age: 39y
1889 Mahdist War: Egyptian and British victory at the Battle of Toski.

1924


May 11
Age: 75y
1924 Harry Grindell Matthews returns from Paris to London; he tries to use a Pathé film to demonstrate that his death ray works.

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