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1879
Nov 11
1879 • American Christian Restorationist Charles Taze Russell publishes the first issue of the monthly Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence which, as The Watchtower, will become the most widely circulated magazine in the world. |
1880
Age: 19d
1880 • Dorchester Penitentiary opens in Canada. |
1900
Age: 20y
1900 • Second Boer War: British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé. |
1904
May 10
Age: 24y
marriageLula Bell Miller Married at the home of William Henry Miller, pronounced by the Rev. W. S. Foreman. Honeymoon was in St. Louis for the 1904 World's Fair. 3 Sources ⇓ |
1904 • Theta Tau, the Professional Engineering Fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
1905
Mar 9
Age: 25y
birth of childWilliam Stanley Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 8 Sources ⇓ |
1905 • 18 – Moscow Uprising, led mainly by Bolsheviks and suppressed by the army. |
1910
Age: 30y
1910 • The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster. |
1913
Mar 7
Age: 33y
birth of childChan Miller Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
1913 • The Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in Germany is finished. |
1917
Age: 37y
militaryScotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ World War I Draft Registration 1 Source ⇓ |
1917 • The Parliament of Finland is dissolved by the Russian Provisional Government. New elections are held in the autumn, resulting in a bourgeois majority. |
1920
Jan 2
Age: 40y
1920 • Queensland and Northern Territory Aviation Services (Qantas) is founded by Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness. |
1930
Age: 50y
1930 • The Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens. This conference approves the use of birth control in limited circumstances, a move away from the Christian views on contraception expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier. |
1940
Apr 17
Age: 60y
1954
Sep 29
Age: 74y
deathMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ After Chandler died of a heart attack, Lula Bell sold the farm and moved in with her sister Alta. 4 Sources ⇓ |
1954 • A dock workers' strike expands in England. |
1954
Oct 1
memorialMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Payne Chapel |
1954 • In Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. |
1954
Oct 1
burialMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Buried at the Memphis Cemetery |
1954 • November 19 - The Korean Cold War between the communist North and the capitalist South begins over a year after the conclusion of the Korean War. |