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1872
Jul 28
| 1872 • The Overland Telegraph is completed in Australia, providing a telegraphic link between Australia and the rest of the world for the first time. |
1892
Age: 19y
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marriageGillum M Shelton Jasper, Jasper, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1892 • United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (UIBPIP or BIRPI). |
1892
Oct
Age: 20y
birth of childIda M Shelton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1892 • The Limelight Department, later one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia. |
1895
Mar
Age: 22y
birth of childEva Shelton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1895 • A major earthquake occurs in the New Madrid Seismic Zone of the midwestern United States, the last to date. |
1897
Sep
Age: 25y
birth of childThomas Shelton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1897 • The word "computer", meaning an electronic calculation device, is first used. |
1900
Jan 5
Age: 27y
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birth of childWinnie Alice Shelton Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1900 • Max Planck announces his discovery of the law of black body emission, marking the birth of quantum physics. |
1900
Jun 9
Age: 27y
| 1900 • Two U.S. Navy cruisers are sent to Central America to protect American interests in a dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. |
1907
Aug 3
Age: 35y
| 1907 • British passenger liner RMS Mauretania, the world's largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool (England) to New York. |