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1877
Aug 3
| 1877 • Asaph Hall discovers Phobos, the inner moon of Mars. |
1880
Age: 2y
| 1880 • The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president. |
1900
Oct 10
Age: 23y
marriageEmma Helen Pearce |
| 1900 • Boxer Rebellion: The Boxers attack Belgians in the Fengtai railway station. |
1901
Sep 18
Age: 24y
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birth of childKenneth Pearce Leach Grant Township, Woodbury, Iowa, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1901 • Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric vacuum cleaner in the United Kingdom. |
1904
May 4
Age: 26y
birth of childClarence Alvin Leach Grant Township, Woodbury, Iowa, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1904 • Russo-Japanese War – Dogger Bank incident: The Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats in the North Sea. |
1905
Age: 27y
| 1905 • Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Skåne (Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden). |
1908
Jun 3
Age: 30y
birth of childHelen Pearl Leach Grant Township, Woodbury, Iowa, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1908 • At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil discovery in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom. |
1911
Age: 33y
| 1911 • Treaty of Berlin brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty led Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara) with Germany forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France gave Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany ceded some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad). |
1916
Age: 38y
| 1916 • 30 – The Easter Rising occurs in Ireland. Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood proclaim an Irish Republic and the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army occupy the General Post Office and other buildings in Dublin before surrendering to the British Army. |
1948
Jan 11
Age: 70y
| 1948 • Alger Hiss files a slander suit against Whittaker Chambers for his August 27 radio statement |