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Children
1884
Aug 31
| 1884 • Sino–French War (for control of Tonkin) breaks out (continues to April 1885). |
1914
Jun 11
Age: 29y
marriageWonieta Zonobia Plaster Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1914 • World War I: Ottoman warships shell Russian Black Sea ports; Russia, France, and Britain declare war on November 1–November 5. |
1915
Aug 18
Age: 30y
birth of childWalter Fred Meyer Washougal, Skamania, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1915 • First United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call, facilitated by a newly invented vacuum tube amplifier, ceremonially inaugurated by Alexander Graham Bell in New York City and his former assistant Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco, California. |
1916
Jun 30
Age: 31y
birth of childIrene Clara Meyer Washougal, Skamania, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1916 • 20 – WWI – Battle of Fromelles: An attack by Australian and British troops is repulsed by the German army with heavy casualties. |
1971
Sep 25
Age: 87y
| 1971 • The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. |