Edwin Parmalee Van Deusen
Parents
Spouse
Claire Elliot Tatem
Claire Elliot Tatem
1883 - 1926
Children
Abigail Van Deusen
Abigail Van Deusen
1905 - 1970
Adelaide Van Deusen
Adelaide Van Deusen
1907 - 1908
Siblings

1884


Sep 25
1884 • Reformers in Korea who admire the Meiji Restoration in Japan stage a coup with Japan's help. China intervens to rescue the king and help suppress the rebels. Afterwards both China and Japan agree to withdraw their troops and military advisers.

1900


Age: 15y

1905


Aug 8
Age: 20y
1905 • Workers' compensation is introduced in Queensland.

1906


Jul 31
Age: 21y
1906 • An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet). This is the first officially recorded powered flight in Europe.

1907


Dec 19
Age: 23y
1907 • The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee de Forest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.

1918


Sep 12
Age: 33y
1918 Third Transjordan attack ends with Anzac Mounted Division victory at the Second Battle of Amman with the subsequent capture at Ziza of the Ottoman II Corps. The division capturing more than 10,000 Ottoman and German prisoners.

1920


Age: 35y
1920 • The National Football League is established as the American Professional Football Association.

1930


Apr 15
Age: 45y
1930 Great Depression: President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress to ask for a $150 million public works program to help create jobs and to stimulate the American economy.

1934


Jan 4
Age: 49y
1934 • In Nazi Germany the political power of the federal states such as Prussia is substantially abolished by the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich" (Gesetz über den Neuaufbau des Reiches).

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