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1870
May 20
| 1870 • Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. |
1900
Age: 29y
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residenceMinneapolis, Minnesota, USA ⇓ Emily is living with her in-laws 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1900 • Australasian prospector Albert Fuller Ellis identifies phosphate deposits on the Pacific Islands of Nauru and Banaba Island (Ocean Island). |
1912
Jan 18
Age: 41y
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marriageEdwin Hicks Van Deusen Delaware, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1912 • In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established. |
1915
Age: 44y
| 1915 • Release of the U.S. silent film Inspiration, the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress (Audrey Munson) appears nude. |
1920
Age: 49y
| 1920 • Irish War of Independence: The Restoration of Order in Ireland Act, passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, receives Royal Assent, providing for Irish Republican Army activists to be tried by court-martial rather than by jury in criminal courts. |
1930
Age: 59y
| 1930 • Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft, and also the first cow to be milked in an aeroplane. |
1940
Age: 69y
| 1940 • 19 – WWII: Thirty-two ships are sunk from Convoy SC 7 and Convoy HX 79 by the most effective "wolfpack" of the war including U-boat aces Kretschmer, Prien and Schepke. |