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1843
Apr 2
1843 • Brazil becomes the second country, after Great Britain, to issue nationally valid postage stamps with the release of its "Bull's Eye" series. |
1850
Age: 6y
1850 • Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is published. |
1860
Age: 16y
1860 • September 5 – The First International Chemistry Congress is held in Karlsruhe, Baden. |
1864
Age: 20y
militaryJefferson, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ William was drafted into the Civil War into the Union Army under J.F. Benjamin. 1 Source ⇓ |
1864 • American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln appoints Ulysses S. Grant commander in chief of all Union armies. |
1873
Mar 25
Age: 29y
marriageHarriet Madison Jenkins Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
1873 • Toronto Argonauts, the oldest professional sports team still playing in North America. |
1874
Feb 5
Age: 30y
birth of childAlta Janetta Miller Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
1874 • The Gamma Phi Beta sorority is founded at Syracuse University. This is the first women's Greek letter organization to be called a sorority. |
1878
Mar 11
Age: 34y
birth of childEstella Mary Miller Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1878 • Lester Allan Pelton produces the first operational Pelton wheel. |
1880
Dec 18
Age: 37y
birth of childLula Bell Miller Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 6 Sources ⇓ |
1880 • Wabash, Indiana becomes the first electrically lit city in the world. |
1887
Aug
Age: 44y
birth of childCharles Dewitt Miller Jefferson, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
1887 • Franz König publishes "Über freie Körper in den Gelenken" in the medical journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, describing (and naming) the disease Osteochondritis dissecans for the first time. |
1900
Jun 15
Age: 57y
1900 • Boxer Rebellion: Peacekeepers from various European countries arrive in China where they join with Japanese forces. |
1910
Age: 66y
1910 • Vajiravudh (Rama VI) is crowned King of Siam, after the death of his father, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V). |
1926
Dec 3
Age: 83y
1926 • Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected president. |