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1905
Mar 9
| 1905 • Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden after losing 100,000 troops in 3 days. |
1910
Age: 4y
| 1910 • Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom under Nicholas I. |
1920
Jan 2
Age: 14y
| 1920 • The New York Times ridicules the American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard. The newspaper has to recant publicly on July 17, 1969 when the Apollo crew is on its mission to the Moon. |
1928
Apr 7
Age: 23y
marriageMadeline Ella Ford 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1928 • 19 – The 1928 Winter Olympics are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first as a separate event. Sonja Henie of Norway wins her first gold medal in women's figure skating. |
1933
Nov 19
Age: 28y
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birth of childWilliam Stanley Johnson Jr. Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1933 • President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act known as the Cullen-Harrison Act, allowing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines."Roosevelt Authorizes Beer Sale By Signing Bill For 3.2 Brew", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 23, 1933, p.1. |
1940
Age: 34y
| 1940 • Plutonium is first synthesized in the laboratory by a team led by Glenn T. Seaborg and Edwin McMillan at the University of California, Berkeley. |
1984
Jun 26
Age: 79y
| 1984 • Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. |
1984
Jun
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burialLawson, Ray County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Buried at the Lawson Cemetery in Missouri, Plot: Section D, Row 36 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1984 • A year-long strike action begins in the British coal industry (see UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985)). |