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A school teacher in Scotland County, Missouri
1880
Dec 18
| 1880 • The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president. |
1900
Jun 15
Age: 19y
| 1900 • The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree. |
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 first successful caterpillar track is made (it later revolutionizes construction vehicles and land warfare). |
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 • Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball. |
1905
Mar 9
Age: 24y
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birth of childWilliam Stanley Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 8 Sources ⇓ |
| 1905 • First performance of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow, at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna. |
1910
Age: 28y
| 1910 • Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero proclaims the elections of 1910 null and void, and calls for an armed revolution at 6 p.m. against the illegitimate presidency/dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. |
1913
Mar 7
Age: 32y
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birth of childChan Miller Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1913 • The ballet The Rite of Spring, with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich, is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; its modernism provokes one of the most famous classical music riots in history. |
1920
Jan 2
Age: 39y
| 1920 • 17 – Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz's 'Kapp Putsch', an attempted coup in Germany, briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin but fails due to public resistance and a general strike. |
1930
Age: 48y
| 1930 • Heinrich Brüning is appointed Chancellor of Germany. |
1940
Apr 17
Age: 59y
| 1940 • WWII: Axis powers: Luftwaffe General Hermann Göring assumes control of most war industries in Germany. |
1968
Aug 14
Age: 87y
| 1968 • August 30 – Police clash with anti-war protesters in Chicago, Illinois, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U.S. President, and Edmund Muskie for Vice President. The riots and subsequent trials were an essential part of the activism of the Youth International Party. |
1968
Aug 17
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memorialMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Memorial held at Payne Chapel 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1968 • The Israel Broadcasting Authority commences television broadcasts. |
1968
Aug
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burialMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Buried at Memphis Cemetery |
| 1968 • The Malayan Communist Party launches a second insurgency and the state of emergency is again imposed in Malaysia. |