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A school teacher in Scotland County, Missouri
1880
Dec 18
| 1880 • The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana. |
1900
Jun 15
Age: 19y
| 1900 • L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published in Chicago, the first of Baum's Oz books chronicling the fictional Land of Oz for children. |
1904
May 10
Age: 23y
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marriageMarried at the home of William Henry Miller, pronounced by the Rev. W. S. Foreman. Honeymoon was in St. Louis for the 1904 World's Fair. 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1904 • The 1904 Moscow tornado occurs. |
1904
May 10
Age: 23y
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marriageChandler Allen Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Married at the home of William Henry Miller, pronounced by the Rev. W. S. Foreman. Honeymoon was in St. Louis for the 1904 World's Fair. 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1904 • Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of 91.37 mph. |
1905
Mar 9
Age: 24y
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birth of childWilliam Stanley Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 8 Sources ⇓ |
| 1905 • Tsar Nicholas II is forced to grant Russia's first constitution, conceding a national assembly (Duma) with limited powers. |
1910
Age: 28y
| 1910 • Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom under Nicholas I. |
1913
Mar 7
Age: 32y
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birth of childChan Miller Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1913 • The statue The Little Mermaid in Kopenhagen, Denmark, is finished. |
1920
Jan 2
Age: 39y
| 1920 • The United States Post Office Department rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.[http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jun13.htm June 13] On-This-Day.com |
1930
Age: 48y
| 1930 • The chocolate chip cookie is invented by Ruth Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. |
1940
Apr 17
Age: 59y
| 1940 • United States politics: The Republican Party begins its national convention in Philadelphia and nominates Wendell Willkie as its candidate for president. |
1968
Aug 14
Age: 87y
| 1968 • Detroit Tiger Denny McLain becomes the first baseball pitcher to win 30 games in a season since 1934. He remains the last to accomplish the feat. |
1968
Aug 17
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memorialMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Memorial held at Payne Chapel 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1968 • February 18 – The 1968 Winter Olympics are held in Grenoble, France. |
1968
Aug
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burialMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Buried at Memphis Cemetery |
| 1968 • Hawaii 5-O debuts on CBS, and eventually becomes the longest-running crime show in television history, until Law & Order overtakes it in 2003. |