Blaine Harold Farmer
Spouse
Jessie Dell King
Jessie Dell King
1891 - 1973

1897


Oct 22
1897 April 19 The first Boston Marathon is held, with fifteen men competing, and won by John McDermott."Boston Marathon", in Historical Dictionary of Track and Field, by Peter Matthews (Scarecrow Press, 2012) p40

1944


Feb 19
Age: 46y
1944 Operation Market Garden ends in an Allied withdrawal.

1976


Apr 23
Age: 78y
1976 • The United States Commission on Civil Rights releases the report, Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United States have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 (up from 29 percent in 1970), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country (not including Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory).

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