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1896
Sep
1896 • Eleven years after its foundation, a group of 12 purely industrial stocks were chosen to form the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index was composed entirely of industrial shares for the first time.[http://articles.philly.com/1995-02-24/news/25702996_1_blue-chip-stocks-industrial-shares-index Dow Record Book Adds Another First]. Philly.com. Retrieved 2013-07-08. |
1900
Jun 11
Age: 3y
1917
Age: 20y
militaryPennsylvania, USA ⇓ Was in World War I. 1 Source ⇓ |
1917 • WWI: Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium. |
1920
Age: 23y
residenceCranesville, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Was a machinist helper for the railroad. 1 Source ⇓ |
1920 • Prohibition in the United States begins with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect. |
1924
May 26
Age: 27y
birth of childPhyllis Hall Miller St. Petersburg, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
1929
Age: 32y
birth of childJean Anna Miller Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1929 • Pope Pius XI emerges from the Apostolic Palace and enters St. Peter's Square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of self-imposed status by the papacy as Prisoner in the Vatican. |
1929
Age: 32y
birth of childJohn Edward Miller Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1929 • The Young Plan, which sets the total World War I reparations owed by Germany at US$26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years, is finalized. |
1930
Age: 33y
1930 • Warner Bros. in the United States release their first cartoon series called Looney Tunes which runs until 1969. |
1940
Age: 43y
1940 • WWII: Winston Churchill pays tribute in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom to the Royal Air Force: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." |
1942
Apr 27
Age: 45y
1942 • Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD). |
1950
Age: 53y
1950 • St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
1951
Apr 23
Age: 54y
residenceOil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ John and Cecelia are living at 203 Reed Street in Oil City. 1 Source ⇓ |
1951 • Monogram Pictures releases sci-fi film Flight to Mars. |
1966
Oct 1
Age: 70y