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1901
Apr 25
| 1901 • In the first great Texas gusher, oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas. |
1920
Age: 18y
| 1920 • The United Kingdom cedes its brief control of the key Black Sea port of Batum to the Democratic Republic of Georgia. |
1923
Oct 20
Age: 22y
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marriageHarry E Gates 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1923 • 1923 Berkeley Fire: A major fire in Berkeley, California, erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California. |
1930
Age: 28y
| 1930 • The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas. |
1937
Feb 19
Age: 35y
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birth of childMary Joann Gates Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1937 • U.S. Supreme Court associate justice Hugo Black, in a nationwide radio broadcast, refutes allegations of past involvement in the Ku Klux Klan. |
1940
Age: 38y
| 1940 • The Churchill war ministry in the United Kingdom offers a Franco-British Union to Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France, in the hope of preventing France from agreeing to an armistice with Germany, but Reynaud resigns when his own cabinet refuses to accept it. |
1972
May 5
Age: 71y
| 1972 • Libya and the Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty. |