Spouse
Owned the town saddle shop in Memphis, Missouri
1875
Jul 23
| 1875 • 6 – German emigrant ship SS Deutschland runs aground in the English Channel resulting in the death of 157 passengers and crew.This inspires Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Wreck of the Deutschland, not published until 1918. |
1910
Age: 34y
| 1910 • January 20 – The first aviation meeting to be held in the United States, the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field, is held near Los Angeles, California. |
1918
Sep 12
Age: 43y
| 1918 • Allied forces break through the Hindenburg Line. |
1920
Age: 44y
| 1920 • Bolshevik Russia recognizes independent Latvia. |
1930
Age: 54y
| 1930 • Pavel Molchanov launches a radiosonde from Pavlovsk in the Soviet Union. |
1940
Apr 2
Age: 64y
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residenceMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ George lived at 140 West Jefferson Street in Memphis 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1940 • WWII: Second Armistice at Compiègne: The French Third Republic and Nazi Germany sign an armistice ending the Battle of France in the Forest of Compiègne, in the same Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits railroad car used by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to agree the Armistice with Germany in 1918. This divides France into a Zone occupée in the north and west under the Military Administration in France (Nazi Germany) and a southern Zone libre, Vichy France. |
1964
Jul 10
Age: 88y
| 1964 • John Glenn announces that he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio. |