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1913
Mar 7
1913 • The Second Balkan War begins. |
1920
Jan 2
Age: 6y
1920 • Hydrocodone, a narcotic analgesic closely related to codeine is first synthesized in Germany by Carl Mannich and Helene Löwenheim. |
1930
Age: 16y
1930 • Nurse Ellen Church becomes the world's first flight attendant, working on a Boeing Air Transport trimotor. |
1934
Feb 1
Age: 20y
marriageLois Lavonn Matticks Missouri, USA ⇓ |
1934 • An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lays well within Ethiopian territory. This encounter leads to the Abyssinia Crisis. |
1935
Feb 14
Age: 21y
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birth of childShirley Ann Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
1935 • Harlem Riot of 1935: A race riot breaks out in Harlem (New York City) after a rumor circulates that a teenage Puerto Rican shoplifter in the S. H. Kress & Co. department store has been brutally beaten. |
1940
Jan 19
Age: 26y
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marriageVera M Riney Kirksville, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1940 • WWII: Winter War: General Semyon Timoshenko takes command of all Russian forces. |
1940
Apr 5
Age: 27y
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residenceMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Chan is working as an automobile salesman 1 Source ⇓ |
1940 • Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a fireside chat to the nation, declares that the United States must become "the great arsenal of democracy." |
before
Mar 6
Age: 27y
1941
Mar 6
Age: 27y
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militaryMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Working for the "Harris Motor Company" 1 Source ⇓ |
1941 • WWII and Attack on Pearl Harbor: Joseph Grew, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, reports to Washington a rumor overheard at a diplomatic reception concerning a planned surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. |
1949
Feb 17
Age: 35y
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birth of childChan Allen Johnson Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ Born at Providence Hospital, Seattle, Washington 2 Sources ⇓ |
1949 • Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. |
about
Dec 5
Age: 36y
1949
Dec 5
Age: 36y
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marriageAnna Franklin Van Deusen Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ Marriage License announcement in Tacoma News Tribune. Chan M was living in Rockport, WA at the time. |
1949 • Operation Priboi: An extensive deportation campaign begins in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltic states to remote areas of the Soviet Union. |
1950
Apr 6
Age: 37y
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residenceSeattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ Chan is working as a Night Watchman at the Wholesale Union Stock Yards in Seattle. He would walk the grounds and check in at locations with a special time clock he wore on a vest. 1 Source ⇓ |
1950 • The first race in the inaugural FIA Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone, England. |
1951
Feb 24
Age: 37y
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birth of childDianne Elizabeth Johnson Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
1951 • "Shot Heard 'Round the World": One of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning off of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games. |
1969
Jan
Age: 55y
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residenceShoreline, King, Washington, USA ⇓ Living at 19358 5th Ave, Shoreline, WA |
1969 • Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus. |
1981
Oct 1
Age: 68y
1981 • Six young people in Yugoslavia first saw what they believed to be an apparition of The Virgin Mary. |
1988
Dec 3
Age: 75y
1988 • The Halabja poison gas attack is carried out by Iraqi government forces. |
after
Dec 3
1988
Dec 3
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burialLynnwood, Snohomish, Washington, USA ⇓ Buried at Floral Hills Cemetery in the Evergreen Garden |
1988 • The Ouvéa cave hostage taking begins in Ouvéa, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. |