♂ Harry Erwin Gates

1901 - 1971

Harry Erwin Gates
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1901


Apr 9
1901 Middelburg peace conference fails in South Africa as Boers continue to demand autonomy.

1923


Oct 20
Age: 22y
1923 • At the International Police Conference in Vienna, the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC), better known as Interpol, is set up.

1930


Age: 28y
1930 • Building of the Boulder Dam (later known as the Hoover Dam) is started on the Colorado River in the United States.

1940


Age: 38y
1940 • WWII: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law, which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%.

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