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1897
Jul 27
| 1897 • April 15 Drillers near Bartlesville, Oklahoma, strike oil for the first time in the designated "Indian Territory", on land leased from the Osage Indians. The gusher, at the Nellie Johnstone Number One well, leads to rapid population growth.W. David Baird and Danney Goble, The Story of Oklahoma (University of Oklahoma Press, 1994) p8 |
1918
Aug 24
Age: 21y
| 1918 • Great Poland Uprising: The Poles in Greater Poland (or Grand Duchy of Poznań) rise up against the Germans. |
1926
May 11
Age: 28y
marriageMary Louise Delude Mount Vernon, Skagit, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1926 • The Rifkabyl rebels surrender in Morocco. |
1940
Age: 42y
| 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. |
1971
Age: 73y
| 1971 • The Soviet Union launches Salyut 1. |