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1872
Oct 27
| 1872 • The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College begins its first academic session (the university is later renamed Virginia Tech). |
1893
Mar 2
Age: 20y
marriageJames Davidson Johnson 1 Source ⇓ |
1895
Feb 16
Age: 22y
birth of childLeo Clarence Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1895 • French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar. |
1897
Jun 14
Age: 24y
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birth of childLloyd Thomas Johnson 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1897 • April 15 Drillers near Bartlesville, Oklahoma, strike oil for the first time in the designated "Indian Territory", on land leased from the Osage Indians. The gusher, at the Nellie Johnstone Number One well, leads to rapid population growth.W. David Baird and Danney Goble, The Story of Oklahoma (University of Oklahoma Press, 1994) p8 |
1899
Age: 26y
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birth of childAlma Lena Johnson 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1899 • Three times world champion Club Nacional de Football is founded in Montevideo, Uruguay. |
1901
Age: 28y
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birth of childRobert O Johnson 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1901 • U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits". |
about
Age: 31y
1904
Age: 31y
birth of childImogene Johnson |
| 1904 • Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball. |
about
Age: 33y
1906
Age: 33y
birth of childNeoma Johnson |
| 1906 • Traian Vuia makes a short flight in a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. |
about
Age: 36y
1909
Age: 36y
birth of childIrena Johnson |
| 1909 • An earthquake in the Zagreb area leads Andrija Mohorovičić to identify the Mohorovičić discontinuity. |
1910
Age: 37y
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residenceMiller, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ James Davidson Johnson and his wife Ella Campbell have six children in this census; Leo, Loyd, Alma, Robert, Emogene, Namoah, and Irena. They're living with Ella's father, Robert Campbell. James Davidson is a farm laborer. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1910 • George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII. |
1911
Feb 6
Age: 38y
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birth of childGrace Campbell Johnson Hillsboro, Henry, Iowa, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1911 • through mid-January 1911. (started Dec. 31, 2010). 1911 First Industrial Airplane Show held in conjunction with the U.S. International Auto Show at Manhattan’s Grand Central Palace in New York. “Grand Central Palace Automobile Show has Auspicious Opening,” New York Times, page, 34, January 1, 1911 Mr. Charles W. Chappelle (1872-1941), a member of the U.S. Aeronautical Reserve, was the only African-American to invent and display an airplane for which he won a medal. |
1913
Mar 29
Age: 40y
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birth of childHoward Charles Johnson 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1913 • Australia begins building the new federal capital of Canberra. |
1920
Jan 26
Age: 47y
| 1920 • Polish–Soviet War: The Red Army retakes Kiev. |
1930
Age: 57y
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residenceCedar Township, Van Buren, Iowa, USA ⇓ James and his wife Ella are living with their son Leo 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1930 • Sergei Eisenstein arrives in Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures; they part ways by October. |
1940
Apr 24
Age: 67y
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locationCedar Township, Van Buren, Iowa, USA ⇓ Ella is living with her daughter Grace and her husband Eugene 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1940 • Opening of Story Bridge |
1944
Jun 23
Age: 71y
| 1944 • British Group Captain James Stagg correctly forecasts a brief improvement in weather conditions over the English Channel which will permit the following day's Normandy landings to take place (having been deferred from today due to unfavourable weather). |