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1849
Oct 1
| 1849 • Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office on a Sabbath. Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate is President de jure for a single day. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 11m
| 1850 • Delegate Edward Ralph May delivers speech on behalf of African American suffrage to the Indiana Constitutional Convention. |
1860
Age: 10y
| 1860 • 21 – Beijing's Old Summer Palace is burned to the ground by orders of British general Lord Elgin in retaliation for mistreatment of several prisoners of war during the Second Opium War. |
1870
Age: 20y
| 1870 • Death of English novelist Charles Dickens at Gads Hill Place in Kent, leaving his last book The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished. |
1874
Age: 24y
marriageGeorge W Farlow |
| 1874 • The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper. |
1875
Age: 25y
birth of childMargaretta Farlow Harrisburg, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ |
| 1875 • The first indoor ice hockey game is played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, Canada. |
1878
May
Age: 28y
birth of childAlfred Homer Farlow Harrisburg, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ |
| 1878 • In anticipation of war with Russia, Disraeli mobilizes the reserves and calls up Indian troops to Malta. |
1900
Age: 50y
| 1900 • Boxer Rebellion: The Boxers attack Belgians in the Fengtai railway station. |
1930
Age: 80y
| 1930 • Bureau of Narcotics established under the United States Department of the Treasury, replacing the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit. |
1938
Jan 29
Age: 88y
| 1938 • Winston Churchill, still believing France and Britain mean to honor their promises to defend Czechoslovakia against Nazi aggression, suggests in a personal note to Neville Chamberlain that His Majesty's Government may want to set up a broad international alliance including the United States (specifically mentioning U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as possibly receptive to the idea) and the Soviet Union. |