Sagarlan Alonzo Knighton
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Neoma Olieta Plaster
Neoma Olieta Plaster
1896 - 1985

1900


Age: 26y
1900 U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote American trade with China.

1910


Apr 18
Age: 37y
1910 Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom under Nicholas I.

1918


Sep 12
Age: 45y
1918 • The Spartacist League founds the German Communist Party.

1920


Jan 21
Age: 46y
1920 Canonization of Joan of Arc. Over 30,000 people attend the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family. Pope Benedict XV presides over the rite, for which the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is richly decorated.

1930


Apr 2
Age: 57y
1930 Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest at the British monopoly on salt; more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5.

1957


Jul
1957 • U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends federal troops to Arkansas to provide safe passage into Central High School for the Little Rock Nine.

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