♂ Thomas W Koffel

1890 - 1978

Thomas W Koffel
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1921


Age: 30y
1921 • A peace conference between Ireland and the United Kingdom begins in London.

1924


Age: 33y
1924 • The 1,400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal Atatürk.

1927


Age: 36y
1927 • Commander Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Balchen, George Noville, and Bert Acosta take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, in the Fokker Trimotor airplane America and cross the Atlantic to the coast of France, having to ditch there because of bad weather. All four men survive the emergency landing.

1978


Nov 5
Age: 88y

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