1896
Jul 20
| 1896 • 'St. Augustine Monster': A large carcass, later postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, is found washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida. |
1914
Jun 30
Age: 17y
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marriageCharles William Gartner Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1914 • World War I: |
1915
Jun 16
Age: 18y
birth of childRuth Margaret Gartner Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1915 • WWI: A British attack on the Dardanelles fails. |
1940
Apr 2
Age: 43y
| 1940 • WWII: Second Armistice at Compiègne: The French Third Republic and Nazi Germany sign an armistice ending the Battle of France in the Forest of Compiègne, in the same Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits railroad car used by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to agree the Armistice with Germany in 1918. This divides France into a Zone occupée in the north and west under the Military Administration in France (Nazi Germany) and a southern Zone libre, Vichy France. |
1985
Jan 3
Age: 88y
| 1985 • Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule. |