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1918
Aug 10
| 1918 • Mehmed VI (1918–1922) succeeds Mehmed V (Resad) (1909–1918) as Ottoman Sultan. |
1920
Age: 1y
| 1920 • Germany declares its neutrality in the war between Poland and Soviet Russia. |
1930
Age: 11y
| 1930 • The Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens. This conference approves the use of birth control in limited circumstances, a move away from the Christian views on contraception expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier. |
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Age: 20y
1939
Age: 20y
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birth of childFrank L McKimmie 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1939 • Naturwissenschaften publishes evidence that nuclear fission has been achieved by Otto Hahn. |
1940
Age: 21y
| 1940 • The Vought XF4U-1, prototype of the F4U Corsair U.S. fighter later used in WWII, makes its first flight. |
1946
Feb 4
Age: 27y
birth of childPatricia Marie Howard Sedro-Woolley, Skagit, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1946 • The first artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Europe was initiated within the Soviet (Russian) nuclear reactor F-1. |
1954
Jul 1
Age: 35y
birth of childMarsha L Thornton |
| 1954 • The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 3.27 points, or 0.86 percent, closing at an all-time high of 382.74. More significantly, this is the first time the Dow has surpassed its peak level reached just before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. |
2002
Aug 21
Age: 84y
| 2002 • The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo displaces an estimated 400,000 people. |