Eugene Jennings Lyon
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1912


Mar 1
1912 • The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.

1936


Mar 15
Age: 24y
1936 • The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history. Note that John Logie Baird had previously broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931.

1940


Apr 24
Age: 28y
1940 Walt Disney's Fantasia is released. It is the first box office failure for Disney, though it eventually recoups its cost years later, and becomes one of the most highly regarded of Disney's films.

1977


Feb
Age: 64y
1977 • Spain has its first democratic elections, after 41 years under the Franco regime.

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