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1860
Jan 16
| 1860 • A new uprising erupts in Palermo. |
1877
Jan 20
Age: 17y
birth of childMinnie Belle Thornton Cassville, Barry, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1877 • Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound, considered Edison's first great invention. Edison demonstrates the device for the first time on November 29. |
1878
Feb 14
Age: 18y
marriageFrances Jane Stroud Barry County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1878 • Ipswich Town Football Club, formed as amateur club Ipswich A.F.C. They will not turn professional until 1936. |
1878
Oct 11
Age: 18y
birth of childLillian Mae Thornton Sequoia County, Oklahoma Territory, USA ⇓ |
| 1878 • The following English Association football clubs: |
1882
Oct 29
Age: 22y
marriageIda May Shepherd Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1882 • Great Comet of 1882: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reported watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun and described it as "The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4″ in diameter; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight." |
1884
Feb
Age: 24y
birth of childWilliam Henry Thornton Barry County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1884 • The United States Naval War College is established in Newport, Rhode Island. |
1885
Oct 17
Age: 25y
birth of childNora Belle Thornton Barry County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1885 • Arbroath 36-0 Bon Accord, the highest score ever in professional soccer. |
1887
Jan 22
Age: 27y
birth of childSarah Jane Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1887 • North Carolina State University is established as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. |
1890
Jul
Age: 30y
birth of childWalter Cyrus Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
1893
Apr 1
Age: 33y
birth of childCora Ann Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1893 • St Hilda's College, Oxford is founded. |
1895
Nov 23
Age: 35y
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birth of childJohn Thomas Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1895 • Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster: 15 crew are lost when their life-boat capsizes while trying to rescue the crew of the SS Palme off Kingstown (modern Dún Laoghaire) near Dublin, Ireland. |
1898
Aug 17
Age: 38y
birth of childArch Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1898 • New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. |
1906
Aug 4
Age: 46y
| 1906 • A United States diplomatic crisis with Japan arises when the San Francisco public school board orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools. |