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Chandler was a farmer who lived on his farm about 2 miles west of Memphis, Missouri.
1879
Nov 11
| 1879 • Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric light bulb (it lasts 13½ hours before burning out). |
1880
Age: 19d
1900
Age: 20y
| 1900 • Max Planck announces his discovery of the law of black body emission, marking the birth of quantum physics. |
1904
May 10
Age: 24y
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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 • Russo-Japanese War – Dogger Bank incident: The Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats in the North Sea. |
1905
Mar 9
Age: 25y
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birth of childWilliam Stanley Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 8 Sources ⇓ |
| 1905 • Kappa Delta Rho is founded in room 14 of Old Painter Hall at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT. |
1910
Age: 30y
| 1910 • The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours. |
1913
Mar 7
Age: 33y
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birth of childChan Miller Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1913 • The King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III. |
1918
Sep 12
Age: 38y
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militaryScotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ World War I Draft Registration 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1918 • Russia switches from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar; the date skips from February 1 to February 14. |
1920
Jan 2
Age: 40y
| 1920 • A referendum in Greece is favorable to the reinstatement of the monarchy. |
1930
Age: 50y
1940
Apr 17
Age: 60y
| 1940 • US historian Arthur Marder publishes The Anatomy of British Sea Power: a history of British naval policy in the pre-Dreadnought era, 1880-1905. |
1954
Sep 29
Age: 74y
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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 • Marilyn Monroe marries baseball player Joe DiMaggio. |
1954
Oct 1
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memorialMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Payne Chapel |
| 1954 • U.S. Capitol shooting incident: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wound five; they are apprehended by security guards. |
1954
Oct 1
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burialMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Buried at the Memphis Cemetery |
| 1954 • Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup, triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years. |