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1865
Dec 14
| 1865 • Governor of New York Reuben Fenton signs a bill formally creating Cornell University in the United States. |
1882
Oct 29
Age: 16y
marriageJohn Franklin Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1882 • Republican Jules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical (laique) and obligatory. |
1884
Feb
Age: 18y
birth of childWilliam Henry Thornton Barry County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1884 • Police training schools are established in every prefecture in Japan. |
1885
Oct 17
Age: 19y
birth of childNora Belle Thornton Barry County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1885 • The play La vida alegre y muerte triste by dramatist José Echegaray opens. |
1887
Jan 22
Age: 21y
birth of childSarah Jane Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1887 • Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States. |
1890
Jul
Age: 24y
birth of childWalter Cyrus Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1890 • The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to tabulate census returns using punched card input, a landmark in the history of computing hardware. Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM. |
1893
Apr 1
Age: 27y
birth of childCora Ann Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1893 • Frederick Jackson Turner gives a lecture titled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before the American Historical Association in Chicago. |
1895
Nov 23
Age: 29y
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birth of childJohn Thomas Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1895 • French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar. |
1898
Aug 17
Age: 32y
birth of childArch Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1898 • Luigi Lucheni assassinates Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary. |
1902
Jun
Age: 36y
| 1902 • Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rides in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut. |