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1915
Jun 16
| 1915 • Boxer Jess Willard, the latest "Great White Hope", defeats Jack Johnson with a 26th round knockout in sweltering heat at Havana, Cuba. Willard becomes very popular among white Americans for "bringing back the championship to the white race". |
1915
Jul 4
Age: 18d
| 1915 • An act of the United States Congress designates the United States Coast Guard, begun in 1790, as a military branch. |
1942
Age: 26y
marriageOwen Clinton Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA ⇓ |
| 1942 • A returning Japanese fighter plane crashes on Melville Island (Australia) and its pilot, Hajime Toyoshima, becomes the first Japanese captured on Australian soil when indigenous resident Matthias Ulungura takes him prisoner. |
2011
Jul 11
Age: 96y
| 2011 • NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons. |