Winnie Alice Shelton
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Parents
Gillum M Shelton
Gillum M Shelton
1865 - 1951
Minnie Maude Adams
Minnie Maude Adams
1872 - 1907
Spouse
John Thomas Thornton
John Thomas Thornton
1895 - 1987
Children
Siblings

1922


Age: 21y

birth of child


Wesley Thornton
1922 • The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto.

1926


Age: 25y
1926 The British General Strike begins at Midnight in support of the coal strike.

1927


Age: 26y
1927 • The U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.

1930


Apr 10
Age: 30y
1930 • The television station W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video and audio from the radio orchestra program The Fox Trappers. This broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for the I. J. Fox Furriers company which sponsored the telecast.

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