1865
Dec 22
1865 • Paul Bogle leads hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion. |
1888
Age: 21y
birth of childCharles Edmund Raynor Spokane, Washington, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
1888 • Handel's Israel in Egypt is recorded onto wax cylinder at The Crystal Palace in London, the earliest known recording of classical music. |
1910
Age: 43y
1910 • The electric streetcars of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7 million riders per year. |
1938
Aug 18
Age: 72y
1938 • At a "friendly luncheon" in Berchtesgaden, German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop tells Józef Lipski, the Polish ambassador to Germany, that the Free City of Danzig must return to Germany, that the Germans must be given extraterritorial rights in the Polish Corridor, and that Poland must sign the Anti-Comintern Pact. |