1897
Sep 21
| 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 |
1923
Age: 25y
birth of childThomas Fountain McGinnis Dundee, Yamhill, Oregon, USA ⇓ |
| 1923 • Her Highness Princess Maud of Fife marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie in Wellington Barracks, London. |
1961
Nov 29
Age: 64y
| 1961 • Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |