♂ Harry Erwin Gates

1901 - 1971

Harry Erwin Gates
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1901


Apr 9

1923


Oct 20
Age: 22y
1923 • Turkish head of state Atatürk founds the Republican People's Party (CHP).

1930


Age: 28y
1930 • A "Jake paralysis" outbreak occurs in the United States resulting from adulterated Jamaica ginger sold as an alcohol substitute during Prohibition.

1940


Age: 38y
1940 • The Churchill war ministry in the United Kingdom offers a Franco-British Union to Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France, in the hope of preventing France from agreeing to an armistice with Germany, but Reynaud resigns when his own cabinet refuses to accept it.

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