Spouse
1910
Sep 3
1914
Jun 11
Age: 3y
marriageWonieta Zonobia Plaster Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1914 • World War I: Battle of the Falkland Islands – A superior British Royal Navy squadron under Doveton Sturdee defeats ships of the Imperial German Navy under Maximilian von Spee. |
1920
Age: 9y
| 1920 • Hydrocodone, a narcotic analgesic closely related to codeine is first synthesized in Germany by Carl Mannich and Helene Löwenheim. |
1930
Age: 19y
1940
Apr 22
Age: 29y
| 1940 • Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany: German Reichskommissar Josef Terboven appoints a provisional council of state from the pro-Nazi Nasjonal Samling party under Vidkun Quisling as a puppet government for Norway. |
1986
Sep 23
Age: 76y
| 1986 • Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th Century (the first visit was in 1910). |