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

1883


Dec
Age: 34y
1883 American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the Po-8" makes his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a handkerchief with a laundry mark that eventually leads to his capture.

1886


Apr
Age: 37y
1886 Uganda Martyrs: Charles Lwanga, twelve other Catholic boys and men and nine Anglicans are burned (and another Catholic speared) to death at the orders of Kabaka Mwanga II of Buganda in Namugongo.

1889


Age: 39y
1889 The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia.

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