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1837
Sep 7
1837 • Martin Van Buren succeeds Andrew Jackson as President of the United States. |
1869
Age: 31y
birth of childElla Lilla Medley Miller, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1869 • The American Museum of Natural History is founded in New York. |
1870
Age: 32y
birth of childSadie Carrie Medley Miller, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
1870 • Reconstruction era of the United States: Virginia rejoins the Union. |
1873
Age: 35y
1873 • Battle of Mañeru (Third Carlist War): In continued campaigning in Navarre, Spanish Republican General Domingo Moriones meets a Carlist force under Nicolás Ollo at Mañeru, near Puente de la Reina, in a hard-fought but indecisive action. While both sides claim victory, the Carlists are said to have had the advantage, and a month later Moriones is repulsed in a costly assault further west against Estella |
1878
Sep
Age: 40y
birth of childMary Frances Medley Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1878 • The world's first recorded floodlit football fixture is played at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, England. |
1880
Age: 42y
1880 • Piezoelectricity is discovered by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie. |
1882
Aug
Age: 44y
birth of childFrancis A Medley Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1882 • Standard Oil of New Jersey is established. |
1900
Age: 62y
1900 • In New Haven, Connecticut, U.S., Louis Lassen of Louis' Lunch makes the first modern-day hamburger sandwich. |
1910
Age: 72y
1910 • The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster. |
1918
Jan 20
Age: 80y
1918 • The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship in North American baseball, their last World Series win until 2004. |