George Washington Plaster
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Parents
Michael Plaster
Michael Plaster
1813 - 1892
Ruth Burress
Ruth Burress
1819 - 1878
Spouse
Clara May Lowry
Clara May Lowry
1864 - 1909
Children
Siblings

1860


Age: 3m
1860 Battle of Milazzo: The forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi defeat royal Neapolitan forces near Messina, bringing nearly all of Sicily under Garibaldi's control.

1880


Age: 19y

1880


Age: 19y
1880 • The Capuchin catacombs of Palermo are officially closed (there will be some burials afterwards).

1882


Jun
Age: 22y
1882 • The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road") runs its first trains over the entire system between Buffalo, New York, and Chicago. Nine days later the Seney Syndicate sells the road to William Henry Vanderbilt for US$7.2 million.

1896


Feb 12
Age: 35y
1896 • In Washington, D.C., in response to a "call to confer" issued by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin to all women of color, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs is organized.

1900


Age: 39y
1900 • The first zeppelin flight is carried out over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

1910


Apr 19
Age: 50y
1910 • Slavery in China, which has existed since the Shang dynasty, is now illegal.

1911


May 16
Age: 51y
1911 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers Superconductivity. He presented his findings on April 28, 1911.van Delft, D., and Kes, P. The discovery of superconductivity. Physics Today (September 2010), 38–43.

1930


Nov 9
Age: 70y
1930 Chicago Tribune journalist Jake Lingle is shot in Chicago, Illinois. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Lingle is later found to have had contacts with organized crime.

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