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1895
Feb
| 1895 • Oscar Wilde is convicted of "sodomy and gross indecency" and is sentenced to serve 2 years in prison at Reading. |
1900
Jun 8
Age: 5y
| 1900 • Botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's Laws of Heredity. |
1919
Jan 8
Age: 23y
marriageCharles J Cooley Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1919 • Save the Children Fund is created in the UK to raise money for the relief of German and Austrian children. |
1925
Apr 13
Age: 30y
marriageSamuel Augustus Nickels Port Orchard, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1925 • Percy and Florence Arrowsmith are married. This couple, who celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary June 1, 2005 (Percy aged 105, and wife Florence 100), are acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as record-holders for the longest marriage for a living couple and the greatest aggregate age of a married couple. |
1969
Apr 17
Age: 74y
| 1969 • In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress. |