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Lula Bell was a school teacher in Scotland County, Missouri
1880
Dec 18
| 1880 • A big earthquake struck Zagreb and demolished everything including the Zagreb Cathedral. |
1900
Jun 15
Age: 19y
| 1900 • Second Boer War: Battle of Paardeberg: British troops defeat the Boers. |
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 • Charles Dillon Perrine discovers Jupiter's largest irregular satellite, Himalia. |
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 running of the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb, the world's oldest motorsport event to have been staged continuously on its original course |
1910
Age: 28y
| 1910 • 5 October 1910 revolution in Portugal leading to the flight of King Manuel II of Portugal to England and proclamation of the First Portuguese Republic. |
1913
Mar 7
Age: 32y
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birth of childChan Miller Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
1920
Jan 2
Age: 39y
| 1920 • 4,025 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial in the United States following raids in several cities. |
1930
Age: 48y
| 1930 • The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time in the United States. |
1940
Apr 17
Age: 59y
| 1940 • WWII: The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. |
1968
Aug 14
Age: 87y
| 1968 • German left-wing students blockade the Springer Press HQ in Berlin and many are arrested (one of them Ulrike Meinhof). |
1968
Aug 17
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memorialMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Memorial held at Payne Chapel 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1968 • Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 (or the Fifth Institutional Act), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military dictatorship. |
1968
Aug
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burialMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Buried at Memphis Cemetery |
| 1968 • Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d'état. |