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1874
Nov 28
| 1874 • 27 – Second Battle of Somorrostro (Third Carlist War): In a renewed attempt to raise the siege of Bilbao by Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano himself arrived with 27,000 men and 70 cannon. However in three days of fierce fighting, the Carlist General Joaquín Elío, with just 17,000 men, once again drove off the attack at nearby Somorrostro, and it was another six weeks before Serrano managed to relieve Bilbao. |
1880
Age: 5y
| 1880 • The Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is established. |
1898
Oct 12
Age: 23y
| 1898 • North Petherton becomes the first town in England to install Acetylene lighting. |
1900
Age: 25y
| 1900 • Second Boer War: British troops are defeated by the Boers at Ladysmith. |
1901
Apr 25
Age: 26y
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birth of childVerona Kathryn Frances Johnson Gorin, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1901 • Middelburg peace conference fails in South Africa as Boers continue to demand autonomy. |
1905
Feb 9
Age: 30y
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birth of childWilla Mae Johnson Gorin, Missouri, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1905 • First running of the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb, the world's oldest motorsport event to have been staged continuously on its original course |
1910
Age: 35y
| 1910 • African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats American boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States. |
1920
Age: 45y
| 1920 • Treaty of Moscow (1920): Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later. |
1940
Age: 65y
| 1940 • WWII: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his [ftp://webstorage2.mcpa.virginia.edu/library/nara/fdr/audiovisual/speeches/fdr_1940_0610.mp3 "Stab in the Back"] speech during the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia. |
1950
Jul 31
Age: 75y
| 1950 • Egypt demands that Britain remove all its troops in the Suez Canal. |
1950
Aug
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burialGorin, Missouri, USA ⇓ Buried at Pleasant Grove Cemetery 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1950 • The Kefauver Committee hearings into U.S. organized crime begin. |