Spouse
1912
Jun 30
| 1912 • Piltdown Man, thought to be the fossilized skull of a hitherto unknown form of early human, presented to the Geological Society of London. It is revealed to be a hoax in 1953. |
1940
Age: 27y
| 1940 • The Selective Service System lottery is held in Washington, D.C.. |
1949
Jul
Age: 37y
| 1949 • The de Havilland Comet, world's first jet-powered airliner, makes its first flight. |
1955
Aug 24
Age: 43y
birth of childMari K McGee |
| 1955 • Claudette Colvin (a fifteen-year-old African-American girl) refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white woman after the driver demands it. She is carried off the bus backwards while being kicked and handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station. |
2000
Dec 30
Age: 88y
| 2000 • Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum following the death of his father, Hafez Al-Assad. |
2001
Oct 10
Age: 89y
| 2001 • Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes. |