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1887
Oct 30
1887 • Heyl & Patterson Inc., a pioneer in coal unloading equipment, is founded by Edmund W. Heyl and William J. Patterson. |
1900
Age: 12y
1900 • The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the palace of Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later. |
1910
Age: 22y
1910 • Emperor Sunjong of the Korean Empire abdicates and the country's monarchy is abolished. |
1916
Jan 10
Age: 28y
marriageNeoma Olieta Plaster Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
1916 • Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives. |
1917
Feb 12
Age: 29y
birth of childIvah Candice King Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
1917 • (traditional beginning date of the Bolshevik Revolution & Russian Civil War). |
1917
Jun 5
Age: 29y
militarySeattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ World War I Draft Registration 1 Source ⇓ |
1917 • The National Hockey League is formed in Montreal as a replacement for the recently disbanded National Hockey Association. |
1918
Aug 10
Age: 30y
birth of childTheresa Olieta King Oregon, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1918 • WWI: Aleppo captured by Prince Feisal's Sheifial Forces. |
1920
Jan 2
Age: 32y
residenceHillyard, Spokane, Washington, USA ⇓ He was a salesman at a piano house. 1 Source ⇓ |
1920 • Bolsheviks increase troops from four divisions to twenty along the Polish border |
1920
Apr 4
Age: 32y
birth of childAnita Evelyn King Oregon, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1920 • Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia. |
1930
Age: 42y
1930 • Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft, and also the first cow to be milked in an aeroplane. |
1942
Age: 54y
militarySeattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ He was a piano tuner - was registered for the draft for World War 2. 1 Source ⇓ |
1942 • Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, "The Italian navigator has landed in the new world" is then sent to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt). |
1973
Jan 9
Age: 85y
1973 • Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape: Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland after a hijacked helicopter lands in the exercise yard. |