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1863
Mar 3
| 1863 • American Indian Wars: The United States Army led by General Patrick Edward Connor massacres Chief Bear Hunter and forces of the Shoshone in the Bear River Massacre in Idaho Territory. |
1870
Age: 6y
| 1870 • The Republic of Ploieşti, an uprising against Domnitor Carol of Romania, fails. |
1880
Age: 16y
| 1880 • The Capuchin catacombs of Palermo are officially closed (there will be some burials afterwards). |
1897
Jun 2
Age: 34y
marriageJessie Amelia Krug Oil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1897 • June 22 The Diamond Jubilee is celebrated in the United Kingdom to honour Queen Victoria's 60 years on the throne.Anne E. Keeling, Great Britain and Her Queen (Echo Library, 2008) p77 No other British monarch will celebrate such a jubilee until June 2, 2012, when the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II is observed. |
1898
Mar 20
Age: 35y
birth of childGeorge C Clinger Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1898 • Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'etat, marking the end of the Hundred Days' Reform; the Guangxu Emperor is arrested. |
1900
Age: 36y
1900
Feb 3
Age: 36y
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birth of childHelen Louise Clinger Oil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1900 • The Second Boer War: At the Battle of Spion Kop, Boer troops defeat the British Army. |
1906
Age: 42y
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birth of childElizabeth L Clinger Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 6 Sources ⇓ |
| 1906 • In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma. |
1910
Age: 46y
| 1910 • The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley. |
1920
Age: 56y
1930
Age: 66y
| 1930 • The chocolate chip cookie is invented by Ruth Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. |
1940
Age: 76y
| 1940 • WWII: The Dutch army formally signs a surrender document. |
1947
Jun 2
Age: 84y
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anniversaryOil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ They were living on 141 River Street at the time, and celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by having an open house from 3-5 and 7-9 pm for their friends, and a family dinner the next day. |
| 1947 • Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day, 4,300 mile, voyage across the Eastern Pacific Ocean, proving that pre-historic peoples could hypothetically have traveled to the Central Pacific islands from South America. |
1948
May 19
Age: 85y
| 1948 • The Oakridge Transit Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia. |