...date... age event
1881/--/-- -1 - alexander ii is assassinated by narodniki revolutionaries in russia.
1881/--/-- -1 - chester a. arthur (republican) becomes president of the united states
1881/--/-- -1 - chester a. arthur is inaugurated as the 21st u.s. president.
1881/--/-- -1 - ferdinand de lesseps begins an abortive attempt to build the panama canal.
1881/--/-- -1 - garfield is inaugurated as the 20th u.s. president; arthur becomes vice-president.
1881/--/-- -1 - james a. garfield (republican) becomes president of the united states
1881/--/-- -1 - japanese statesman itagaki taisuke founds the jiyuto (liberal party).
1881/--/-- -1 - lillie langtry, mistress of the prince of wales, makes her acting debut.
1881/--/-- -1 - president garfield is assassinated by charles j. guiteau.
1881/--/-- -1 - the sudanese under mahdi muhammad ahmad overthrow egyptian rule.
1881/--/-- -1 - the first u.s. tennis championship is held in newport, r.i.
1881/07/28 0 *** griffin, delia ann (crabtree) - born to griffin, john henry and lee, mary emiline (griffin)
1882/--/-- 0 - a triple alliance is established between austria, italy and germany.
1882/--/-- 0 - edison's new york plant begins supplying 59 customers with electricity.
1882/--/-- 0 - impressionist artist edouard manet completes the bar at the folies-bergere.
1882/--/-- 0 - japanese statesman okuma shigenobu founds the kaishinto, or progressive, party.
1882/--/-- 0 - the british take control of egypt, suppressing uprisings against tawfiq pasha.
1882/--/-- 0 - the u.s. begins to restrict immigration with the chinese exclusion acts.
1883/--/-- 1 - buffalo bill cody organizes his wild west show.
1883/--/-- 1 - civil service established
1883/--/-- 1 - cyrus h. k. curtis publishes the lady's home journal magazine.
1883/--/-- 1 - german philosopher frederich wilhelm nietzsche begins thus spake zarathustra.
1883/--/-- 1 - maxim invents machine gun
1883/--/-- 1 - paul kruger becomes president of the boer republic of the transvaal in south africa.
1883/--/-- 1 - russian scientist tsiolkovsky proves that a rocket could work in the vacuum of space.
1883/--/-- 1 - the brooklyn bridge is completed in new york.
1883/--/-- 1 - the fabian society is founded in london to spread socialist ideas.
1883/--/-- 1 - the island volcano of krakatoa explodes in indonesia, causing 36,000 deaths.
1883/--/-- 1 - the first skyscraper (10 stories) is built in chicago by william lebaron jenney.
1884/--/-- 2 - 15 european nations partition africa for "spheres of influence"
1884/--/-- 2 - american author mark twain publishes the adventures of huckleberry finn.
1884/--/-- 2 - belva lockwood becomes the first woman nominated as a u.s. presidential candidate.
1884/--/-- 2 - german east africa is formed from rwanda, mozambique,tanzania and burundi.
1884/--/-- 2 - germany occupies south west africa (namibia).
1884/--/-- 2 - lewis e. waterman invents the first fountain pen with an ink reservoir.
1885/--/-- 3 - boston symphony orchestra organizes its promenade concerts (the boston pops).
1885/--/-- 3 - cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd u.s. president; hendricks becomes vice-president.
1885/--/-- 3 - french chemist louis pasteur develops a vaccine for rabies.
1885/--/-- 3 - general gordon is killed by mahdist forces at the siege of khartoum in sudan.
1885/--/-- 3 - gottlieb daimler develops the first motorcycle.
1885/--/-- 3 - grover cleveland (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1885/--/-- 3 - j. k. stanley introduces his safety cycle, the basic model for the modern bicycle.
1885/--/-- 3 - louis pasteur administers successful rabies vaccination
1885/--/-- 3 - the congo free state (zaire) becomes the possession of king leopold ii of belgium.
1885/--/-- 3 - the indian national congress movement is founded in bombay.
1885/03/13 3 *** griffin, sarah lou ella (zachary) [sister] - born to griffin, john henry and lee, mary emiline (griffin)
1886/--/-- 4 - apache indian chief geronimo surrenders to general nelson miles.
1886/--/-- 4 - britain makes burma a province of india after winning the anglo-burma war.
1886/--/-- 4 - british prime minister gladstone introduces an unsuccessful home rule bill for ireland.
1886/--/-- 4 - french sculptor auguste rodin completes the kiss.
1886/--/-- 4 - gold is discovered in transvaal, south africa.
1886/--/-- 4 - haymarket square labor riot in chicago kills eleven people
1886/--/-- 4 - jose balmaceda becomes president of chile.
1886/--/-- 4 - samuel gompers organizes the american federation of labor.
1886/--/-- 4 - the anglo-german agreement recognizes german control over tanganyika (tanzania).
1886/--/-- 4 - the statue of liberty is unveiled in new york harbor.
1886/03/01 4 *** griffin, ada ermon (harlan) [sister] - born to griffin, john henry and lee, mary emiline (griffin) clinton county kentucky
1887/--/-- 5 - arthur conan doyle publishes the first sherlock holmes story.
1887/--/-- 5 - france creates the union of indochina (most of modern day vietnam and kampuchea).
1887/--/-- 5 - the michelson-morley experiment confirms the absence of ether.
1888/--/-- 6 - a patent is issued to american inventor john h. loud for the first ball-point pen.
1888/--/-- 6 - american inventor george eastman introduces the kodak box camera.
1888/--/-- 6 - britain unites its caribbean colonies of trinidad and tobago.
1888/--/-- 6 - dutch artist vincent van gogh paints still life with sunflowers.
1888/--/-- 6 - eastman's kodak camera begins amateur photography
1888/--/-- 6 - jack the ripper murders seven women in london.
1888/--/-- 6 - russian composer nikolai rimsky-korsakov writes scheherazade.
1888/--/-- 6 - the national geographic magazine is published for the first time.
1888/--/-- 6 - william ii succeeds frederick iii as emperor of germany.
1889/--/-- 7 - benjamin harrison (republican) becomes president of the united states
1889/--/-- 7 - benjamin harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd u.s. president.
1889/--/-- 7 - crown prince rudolf of austria commits suicide at mayerling.
1889/--/-- 7 - german revolutionary rosa luxemburg is exiled in switzerland.
1889/--/-- 7 - gustave eiffel designs the eiffel tower for the paris exposition.
1889/--/-- 7 - japan's first prime minister ito hirobumi introduces the meiji constitution.
1889/--/-- 7 - montana is inaugurated as the 41st state.
1889/--/-- 7 - montana is inaugurated as the 41st state; washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1889/--/-- 7 - north dakota and south dakota are inaugurated as the 39th and 40th states.
1889/--/-- 7 - north dakota is inaugurated as the 39th state of the union.
1889/--/-- 7 - pedro ii emperor of brazil is overthrown in a coup; brazil is declared a republic.
1889/--/-- 7 - south dakota is inaugurated as the 40th state of the union.
1889/--/-- 7 - washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1890/--/-- 8 - afl founded by s gompers
1890/--/-- 8 - american naval officer alfred mahan publishes the influence of sea power upon history.
1890/--/-- 8 - american psychologist william james publishes the principles of psychology.
1890/--/-- 8 - cecil rhodes becomes prime minister of the cape colony in south africa.
1890/--/-- 8 - claude debussy begins composing suite bergamasque, including clair de lune.
1890/--/-- 8 - dutch artist vincent van gogh commits suicide.
1890/--/-- 8 - german chancellor otto von bismarck is dismissed by emperor william ii.
1890/--/-- 8 - idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state.
1890/--/-- 8 - idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state; wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 8 - indian poet rabindranath tagore publishes manasi (the mind's embodiment).
1890/--/-- 8 - photographer jacob riis documents new york's poor in how the other half lives.
1890/--/-- 8 - sherman antitrust act
1890/--/-- 8 - sioux indians are massacred at the battle of wounded knee.
1890/--/-- 8 - the british south africa company occupies zimbabwe; conflicts begin with the ndebele.
1890/--/-- 8 - the forth railway bridge is opened, replacing the brooklyn bridge as the longest span.
1890/--/-- 8 - wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 8 - zanzibar becomes a british protectorate.
1890/10/-- 9 *** griffin, leo r [brother] - born to griffin, john henry and lee, mary emiline (griffin)
1891/--/-- 9 - anglo-irish author oscar wilde publishes his only novel the picture of dorian gray.
1891/--/-- 9 - english novelist thomas hardy writes tess of the d'urbervilles.
1891/--/-- 9 - eugene dubois discovers the first homo erectus remains on java in indonesia.
1891/--/-- 9 - french postimpressionist artist paul gauguin travels to tahiti.
1891/--/-- 9 - james naismith devises the game of basketball in springfield, mass.
1891/--/-- 9 - the american express company introduces the first traveler's checks.
1891/05/17 9 *** griffin, mary alice elizabeth (groce) [sister] & groce, john isaac - married
1892/--/-- 10 - french artist henri de toulouse-lautrec paints at the moulin rouge.
1892/--/-- 10 - impressionist artist paul cezanne completes the card players.
1892/--/-- 10 - james j. corbett wins the heavyweight boxing championship from john l. sullivan.
1892/--/-- 10 - strike at carnegie steel results in ten deaths
1892/--/-- 10 - the san francisco examiner begins printing the first newspaper comic strip.
1892/--/-- 10 - writer and political revolutionary jose marti founds the cuban revolutionary party.
1893/--/-- 11 - american artist louis comfort tiffany begins producing art nouveau glassware.
1893/--/-- 11 - cleveland is inaugurated as the 24th u.s. president; hendricks becomes vice-president.
1893/--/-- 11 - france adds laos to "protectorate" of indochina
1893/--/-- 11 - france adds laos to the union of indochina.
1893/--/-- 11 - gladstone's second irish home rule bill is vetoed by the house of lords in britain.
1893/--/-- 11 - grover cleveland (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1893/--/-- 11 - queen liliuokalani is ousted in hawaii; sanford b. dole, is elected president (1894).
1893/--/-- 11 - the ivory coast becomes a french colony.
1893/--/-- 11 - victor horta's tassel house in brussels initiates the art nouveau architectural style.
1893/07/25 11 *** griffin, edna e. (parrigin, harlan) [sister] - born to griffin, john henry and lee, mary emiline (griffin)
1894/--/-- 12 - britain establishes a protectorate over buganda and conquers the rest of uganda.
1894/--/-- 12 - czech decorative artist alfons mucha designs a poster of sarah bernhardt.
1894/--/-- 12 - dreyfus case splits france
1894/--/-- 12 - english artist aubrey beardsley illustrates oscar wilde's salome.
1894/--/-- 12 - english author rudyard kipling publishes the jungle book.
1894/--/-- 12 - percival lowell builds an observatory to study the martian canals.
1894/--/-- 12 - rebellion in korea begins the first sino-japanese war.
1894/--/-- 12 - the arrest of army captain albert dreyfus creates a political crisis in france.
1894/--/-- 12 - thousands of armenians are massacred in turkey.
1894/08/-- 13 *** griffin, joseph william [brother] & lee, mary etta (griffin) - married
1895/--/-- 13 - anglo-irish playwright oscar wilde writes the importance of being earnest.
1895/--/-- 13 - japan defeats china; the shimonoseki treaty establishes korean independence.
1895/--/-- 13 - louis and auguste lumiere show the first motion pictures to a paris cafe audience.
1895/--/-- 13 - russian revolutionary vladimir ilich lenin is exiled to siberia.
1895/--/-- 13 - sir henry irving becomes the first british actor to be knighted.
1895/--/-- 13 - the american bowling congress (abc) is founded.
1895/--/-- 13 - the cuban war of independence begins against spain; jose marti is killed in battle.
1895/--/-- 13 - the jameson raid on the boer republic of transvaal increases anti-british hostility.
1895/--/-- 13 - the first list of best-selling books is published by the bookman magazine.
1895/--/-- 13 - wilhelm rontgen discovers x-rays
1895/--/-- 13 - x rays are discovered by german physicist wilhelm c. roentgen.
1895/06/24 13 *** griffin, nora lorene (allen) [niece] - born to griffin, joseph william and lee, mary etta (griffin)
1896/--/-- 14 - a tsunami (tidal wave) kills 27,000 people in japan.
1896/--/-- 14 - italian composer giacomo puccini writes the opera la boheme.
1896/--/-- 14 - john philip sousa composes the stars and stripes forever.
1896/--/-- 14 - king menelik ii defeats the italians at adwa, maintaining ethiopian independence.
1896/--/-- 14 - supreme court rules "separate but equal" legal
1896/--/-- 14 - the first modern olympic games are held at athens in greece; 13 countries compete.
1896/--/-- 14 - utah is inaugurated as the 45th state of the union.
1897/--/-- 15 - american comic strip the katzenjammer kids is begun by rudolph dirks.
1897/--/-- 15 - austrian artist gustav klimt helps to found the vienna secession group.
1897/--/-- 15 - british physician havelock ellis begins his studies in the psychology of sex.
1897/--/-- 15 - english author rudyard kipling publishes captains courageous.
1897/--/-- 15 - french dramatist edmond rostand writes cyrano de bergerac.
1897/--/-- 15 - french primitive artist henri rousseau paints the sleeping gypsy.
1897/--/-- 15 - mckinley is inaugurated as the 25th u.s. president; hobart becomes vice-president.
1897/--/-- 15 - russian author anton chekhov writes the play uncle vanya.
1897/--/-- 15 - stanislavsky founds the moscow art theater and begins the method acting technique.
1897/--/-- 15 - the first subway un the u.s. opens in boston.
1897/--/-- 15 - theodor herzl organizes the world zionist congress at basel in switzerland.
1897/--/-- 15 - william mckinley (republican) becomes president of the united states
1898/--/-- 16 *** dennis, margaret (griffin) [grandmother] - died clinton county kentucky
1898/--/-- 16 *** griffin, john j. [nephew] - born to griffin, joseph william and lee, mary etta (griffin)
1898/--/-- 16 - anglo-irish playwright george bernard shaw publishes arms and the man.
1898/--/-- 16 - britain obtains a 99-year lease for hong kong from the chinese.
1898/--/-- 16 - commodore dewey destroys the spanish fleet in manila harbor.
1898/--/-- 16 - cuba occupied by u.s. and released
1898/--/-- 16 - english author h. g. wells publishes the war of the worlds.
1898/--/-- 16 - spain cedes puerto rico, guam and the philippines to the u.s. in the treaty of paris.
1898/--/-- 16 - spanish-american war, cuba, phillipines, us
1898/--/-- 16 - the boxer uprising begins in china; empress tz'u-hsi imprisons the emperor.
1898/--/-- 16 - the british under kitchener defeat the mahdists at omdurman in sudan.
1898/--/-- 16 - the fashoda incident leads to a french withdrawal from the sudan.
1898/--/-- 16 - the spanish fleet is destroyed off cuba; spain sues for peace.
1898/--/-- 16 - the spanish-american war begins with a declaration of war by congress.
1898/--/-- 16 - the u.s. army uses machine guns for the first time in the battle of santiago.
1898/--/-- 16 - the u.s. battleship maine explodes in the spanish port of manila in the philippines.
1898/--/-- 16 - u.s. troops land on cuba; theodore roosevelt's rough riders are in action.
1898/--/-- 16 - william randolph hearst's yellow journalism inflames anti-spanish feelings.
1898/09/-- 17 *** griffin, joseph [grandfather] - died clinton county kentucky
1898/10/-- 17 *** griffin, carrie [niece] - born to griffin, joseph william and lee, mary etta (griffin)
1899/--/-- 17 - american artist winslow homer paints the gulf stream.
1899/--/-- 17 - american composer scott joplin publishes his maple leaf rag.
1899/--/-- 17 - designer charles rennie mackintosh completes the glasgow school of art.
1899/--/-- 17 - english composer edward elgar writes the enigma variations.
1899/--/-- 17 - journalist and future statesman winston churchill escapes from boer captivity.
1899/--/-- 17 - sigmund freud "interpretation of dreams"
1899/--/-- 17 - the british under robert baden-powell are besieged by the boers at mafeking.
1899/--/-- 17 - the south african war begins between the boers (afrikaners) and the british.
1899/--/-- 17 - u.s. secretary of state john m. hay advocates an open door policy for china.
1900/--/-- 18 - american novelist theodore dreiser publishes his first novel sister carrie.
1900/--/-- 18 - an international force lifts the boxer siege of peking.
1900/--/-- 18 - british politician keir hardie helps to found the labour party.
1900/--/-- 18 - chinese nationalists besiege foreigners in peking during the boxer uprising.
1900/--/-- 18 - dutch physiologist willem einthoven invents the electrocardiograph.
1900/--/-- 18 - hawaii is made a u.s. territory; sanford dole serves as the first governor.
1900/--/-- 18 - hector guimard uses art nouveau designs for the entrances to the paris metro.
1900/--/-- 18 - humbert i is assassinated; he is succeeded by victor emanuel iii as king of italy.
1900/--/-- 18 - italian author gabriele d'annunzio publishes the flame of life.
1900/--/-- 18 - james j. jeffries beats jim corbett to retain the heavyweight boxing title.
1900/--/-- 18 - max planck formulates the quantum theory in physics.
1900/--/-- 18 - psychoanalyst sigmund freud publishes the interpretation of dreams.
1900/--/-- 18 - sir arthur evans begins the excavation of the minoan palace at knossos, crete.
1900/--/-- 18 - the boers begin a guerrilla war against the british occupation forces.
1900/--/-- 18 - the british defeat the boer (afrikaner) armies in south africa and occupy pretoria.
1900/--/-- 18 - the u.s. wins the first davis cup tennis contest.
1901/--/-- 19 - a 39,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered in russia.
1901/--/-- 19 - a stele bearing the code of hammurabi is discovered in susa, iran.
1901/--/-- 19 - american surgeon walter reed proves that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.
1901/--/-- 19 - an american league of baseball is formed in competition to the national league.
1901/--/-- 19 - andrew carnegie sells his company and devotes himself to philanthropy.
1901/--/-- 19 - britain incorporates ashanti territory into the gold coast (ghana).
1901/--/-- 19 - english author beatrix potter publishes her children's book the tale of peter rabbit.
1901/--/-- 19 - guglielmo marconi tests radio transmissions between england and newfoundland.
1901/--/-- 19 - king c. gillette founds the american safety razor company.
1901/--/-- 19 - pres. mckinley shot by anarchist
1901/--/-- 19 - president mckinley is assassinated by the anarchist leon czolgosz.
1901/--/-- 19 - queen victoria dies; she is succeeded by her son edward vii.
1901/--/-- 19 - russia occupies manchuria in north-east china.
1901/--/-- 19 - sergei rachmaninoff writes his second piano concerto.
1901/--/-- 19 - sir edward elgar composes the first of his five pomp and circumstance marches.
1901/--/-- 19 - spanish painter pablo picasso's blue period begins.
1901/--/-- 19 - temperance advocate carry nation uses a hatchet to attack a kansas saloon.
1901/--/-- 19 - the commonwealth of australia is founded.
1901/--/-- 19 - the first u.s. national bowling tournament is held.
1901/--/-- 19 - theodore roosevelt (republican) becomes president of the united states
1901/--/-- 19 - theodore roosevelt is inaugurated as the 26th u.s. president.
1901/--/-- 19 - victor l. berger and eugene v. debs help found the american socialist party.
1901/01/02 19 - edward vii succeeds as king of great britain and ireland.
1902/--/-- 20 - american artist robert henri paints the new york street scene west 57th street.
1902/--/-- 20 - conan doyle writes the sherlock holmes adventure the hound of the baskervilles.
1902/--/-- 20 - english author joseph conrad publishes heart of darkness.
1902/--/-- 20 - french filmmaker georges melies produces a trip to the moon.
1902/--/-- 20 - italian opera singer enrico caruso makes his first phonographic recording.
1902/--/-- 20 - maksim gorky's the lower depths is produced at the moscow art theater.
1902/--/-- 20 - oliver wendell holmes jr. is appointed to the u.s. supreme court.
1902/--/-- 20 - roosevelt begins conservation of forests
1902/--/-- 20 - the photo-secession group is founded in new york by photographer alfred stieglitz.
1902/--/-- 20 - the treaty of vereeniging ends the south african war.
1902/08/-- 21 - edward vii crowned king of great britain and ireland and emperor of india at wes
1903/--/-- 21 *** griffin, virgie e. [niece] - born to griffin, joseph william and lee, mary etta (griffin)
1903/--/-- 21 - alexander, king of serbia, is assassinated; he is succeeded by peter i.
1903/--/-- 21 - american author jack london publishes the call of the wild.
1903/--/-- 21 - american novelist henry james publishes the ambassadors.
1903/--/-- 21 - bernard shaw's play man and superman is produced in london.
1903/--/-- 21 - colonel francis younghusband leads a british military expedition into tibet.
1903/--/-- 21 - edwin s. porter directs the pioneering western film the great train robbery.
1903/--/-- 21 - emmeline pankhurst founds the women's social and political union in britain.
1903/--/-- 21 - marie and pierre curie win the nobel prize for physics for their work on radioactivity.
1903/--/-- 21 - orville wright makes the first successful flight in a self-propelled airplane.
1903/--/-- 21 - panama declares its independence from columbia; the u.s. recognizes the new republic.
1903/--/-- 21 - the rolls-royce automobile company is founded in britain.
1903/--/-- 21 - the u.s. acquires perpetual control over the panama canal zone.
1903/--/-- 21 - the first world series baseball game is played.
1903/--/-- 21 - vladimir ilich lenin organizes the bolshevik revolutionary group.
1903/--/-- 21 - wright bros. first airplane
1903/10/-- 22 - world series nl pittsburgh (3) al boston (5)
1904/--/-- 22 - italian composer giacomo puccini's opera madame butterfly is produced.
1904/--/-- 22 - ivan pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, is awarded the nobel prize.
1904/--/-- 22 - james barrie's play peter pan is produced in london.
1904/--/-- 22 - max weber publishes the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
1904/--/-- 22 - roosevelt asserts u.s. right to intervene in latin america
1904/--/-- 22 - russia and japan at war
1904/--/-- 22 - russian author anton chekhov's play the cherry orchard is produced.
1904/--/-- 22 - territorial disputes in manchuria begin the russo-japanese war.
1904/--/-- 22 - the abbey theatre is founded in dublin.
1904/--/-- 22 - the new york city subway is opened.
1905/--/-- 23 *** griffin, ada ermon (harlan) [sister] & harlan, john thomas - married
1905/--/-- 23 *** griffin, rosa jane (cummings) [niece] - born to griffin, joseph william and lee, mary etta (griffin)
1905/--/-- 23 - a general strike and revolution begin in russia; nicholas ii grants a constitution.
1905/--/-- 23 - albert einstein proposes special theory of relativity
1905/--/-- 23 - ambrose fleming invents the thermionic valve, used to improve radio reception.
1905/--/-- 23 - american humorist and actor will rogers makes his new york city debut.
1905/--/-- 23 - american labor leader eugene v. debs founds the industrial workers of the world.
1905/--/-- 23 - chinese revolutionary sun yat-sen founds the t'ung-meng hui (alliance society).
1905/--/-- 23 - ernst ludwig kirchner organizes the expressionist painters group die brucke.
1905/--/-- 23 - french territorial ambitions spark the first moroccan crisis.
1905/--/-- 23 - german physicist albert einstein proposes his special theory of relativity.
1905/--/-- 23 - german poet rainer maria rilke publishes the book of hours.
1905/--/-- 23 - henri matisse and andre derain form the fauves (wild beasts) art movement.
1905/--/-- 23 - psychologist alfred binet develops intelligence tests for school children.
1905/--/-- 23 - roosevelt begins his second term as u.s. president; fairbanks becomes vice-president.
1905/--/-- 23 - the cullinan diamond is found in south africa; it weighs 3,106 carats.
1905/--/-- 23 - the russian fleet is destroyed by the japanese at the battle of tsushima.
1905/--/-- 23 - the sinn fein irish nationalist movement is founded by arthur griffith.
1905/--/-- 23 - the union of norway and sweden is dissolved; haakon vii is elected king of norway.
1905/--/-- 23 - w.e.b. du bois forms the niagara movement to demand full civil rights for black americans.
1905/--/-- 23 - mini-revolution in russia
1905/09/13 24 *** harlan, arthur [nephew] - born to harlan, john thomas and griffin, ada ermon (harlan)
1905/10/-- 24 - world series nl new york (4) al philadelphia (1)
1906/--/-- 24 - british author john galsworthy publishes the first novel of the forsythe saga.
1906/--/-- 24 - h.m.s. dreadnought, the first modern battleship, is launched.
1906/--/-- 24 - norwegian explorer roald amundsen traverses the northwest passage.
1906/--/-- 24 - the aga khan iii forms the all-india moslim league.
1906/--/-- 24 - the dreyfus affair ends with the pardoning of french army officer alfred dreyfus.
1906/--/-- 24 - the san francisco earthquake kills 700.
1906/--/-- 24 - under the platt amendment u.s. troops return to cuba to quell rebellion and restore order.
1906/--/-- 24 - upton sinclair's novel the jungle leads to the u.s. pure foods and drugs act.
1906/10/-- 25 - world series nl chicago (2) al chicago (4)
1907/--/-- 25 - a triple entente is formed between britain, france and russia.
1907/--/-- 25 - anna pavlova dances the dying swan, choreographed by mikhail fokine.
1907/--/-- 25 - irish playwright j.m. synge writes the playboy of the western world.
1907/--/-- 25 - lee de forest invents the triode, a key component for amplifying radio signals.
1907/--/-- 25 - oklahoma is inaugurated as the 46th state of the union.
1907/--/-- 25 - rasputin gains influence at the court of russian emperor nicholas ii.
1907/--/-- 25 - the panic of 1907 begins with the collapse of the u.s. stock market.
1907/--/-- 25 - the first ziegfeld follies are staged in new york city.
1907/09/07 26 *** harlan, walter t. [nephew] - born to harlan, john thomas and griffin, ada ermon (harlan)
1907/10/-- 26 - world series nl chicago (4) al detroit (0)
1908/--/-- 26 - an earthquake at messina in italy kills 80,000.
1908/--/-- 26 - austria-hungary annexes bosnia and hercegovina.
1908/--/-- 26 - austrian artist gustav klimt paints the kiss.
1908/--/-- 26 - automaker william durant founds the general motors company.
1908/--/-- 26 - british soldier robert baden-powell founds the boy scout movement.
1908/--/-- 26 - filmmakers charles pathe and leon gaumont produce the first newsreel.
1908/--/-- 26 - ge patents electric toaster
1908/--/-- 26 - jack johnson becomes the first black heavyweight boxing champion.
1908/--/-- 26 - kenneth grahame publishes his children's story the wind in the willows.
1908/--/-- 26 - king leopold ii of the belgians establishes the independent state of congo in africa.
1908/--/-- 26 - liberal leader herbert asquith becomes prime minister of britain.
1908/--/-- 26 - mary baker eddy establishes the christian science monitor.
1908/--/-- 26 - pablo picasso and georges braque cofound the cubism art movement.
1908/--/-- 26 - the ashcan school of painters exhibit in new york city.
1908/--/-- 26 - the ford motor company produces the first model t automobile.
1908/--/-- 26 - the national association for the advancement of colored people (naacp) is founded.
1908/--/-- 26 - the tunguska fireball explodes in siberia with the force of a modern h-bomb.
1908/--/-- 26 - the young turk revolution in turkey leads to political reform.
1908/10/-- 27 - world series nl chicago (4) al detroit (1)
1909/--/-- 27 - american architect frank lloyd wright builds the robie house in chicago.
1909/--/-- 27 - american artist george bellows paints the prize fight scene stag at sharkey's.
1909/--/-- 27 - american explorer robert e. peary reaches the north pole.
1909/--/-- 27 - american poet william carlos williams publishes poems, his first book.
1909/--/-- 27 - american writer gertrude stein publishes three lives.
1909/--/-- 27 - french aviator louis bleriot makes the first flight across the english channel.
1909/--/-- 27 - naacp in nyc
1909/--/-- 27 - russian impresario serge diaghilev presents the ballet russe in paris.
1909/--/-- 27 - taft is inaugurated as the 27th u.s. president; sherman becomes vice-president.
1909/--/-- 27 - william howard taft (republican) becomes president of the united states
1909/09/24 28 *** harlan, floyd [nephew] - born to harlan, john thomas and griffin, ada ermon (harlan)
1909/10/-- 28 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al detroit (3)
1910/--/-- 28 *** griffin, adam [nephew] - born to griffin, joseph william and lee, mary etta (griffin)
1910/--/-- 28 - british empire covers 1/5th of world land area
1910/--/-- 28 - british author arnold bennett publishes clayhanger.
1910/--/-- 28 - british politician winston churchill is appointed first lord of the admiralty.
1910/--/-- 28 - france groups four african territories together as french equatorial africa.
1910/--/-- 28 - french primitive artist henri rousseau paints the dream.
1910/--/-- 28 - french sculptor auguste rodin casts the bronze figure the thinker.
1910/--/-- 28 - fundamentalism begins with "five points"
1910/--/-- 28 - george v succeeds his father edward vii as king of great britain and ireland.
1910/--/-- 28 - german bacteriologist paul ehrlich synthesizes salversan, a cure for syphilis.
1910/--/-- 28 - italian artists led by umberto boccioni found the futurism movement.
1910/--/-- 28 - japanese forces annex korea.
1910/--/-- 28 - madero, villa and zapata lead a revolution against mexican dictator porfirio diaz.
1910/--/-- 28 - russian-born artist wassily kandinsky executes his first abstract painting.
1910/--/-- 28 - the art deco architectural and decorative arts style begins to become popular.
1910/--/-- 28 - the union of south africa is formed; louis botha becomes the first prime minister.
1910/05/-- 28 - george v succeeds as king of great britain and ireland.
1910/10/-- 29 - world series nl chicago (1) al philadelphia (4)
1911/--/-- 29 - american aviator glen curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911/--/-- 29 - american novelist edith wharton publishes ethan frome.
1911/--/-- 29 - american songwriter irving berlin publishes alexander's ragtime band.
1911/--/-- 29 - elmer a. sperry designs the first american gyrocompass.
1911/--/-- 29 - english author g.k. chesterton publishes the first father brown story.
1911/--/-- 29 - german-american anthropologist franz boas publishes the mind of primitive man.
1911/--/-- 29 - hans geiger invents an electrical device to count individual alpha particles.
1911/--/-- 29 - italy's attempts to annex cyrenaica and tripolitania leads to the italo-turkish war.
1911/--/-- 29 - mexican dictator porfirio diaz is overthrown; francisco madero becomes president.
1911/--/-- 29 - norwegian explorer roald amundsen reaches the south pole ahead of robert scott.
1911/--/-- 29 - richard strauss' opera der rosenkavalier is performed for the first time.
1911/--/-- 29 - robert a millikan measures electron's charge
1911/--/-- 29 - russian artist marc chagall paints i and my village.
1911/--/-- 29 - sir ernest rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure.
1911/--/-- 29 - the ch'ing dynasty is deposed in china; a republic is formed under sun yat-sen.
1911/--/-- 29 - the first film studio is established at hollywood in california.
1911/--/-- 29 - tibet declares its independence from china.
1911/--/-- 29 - willis carrier designs the first practical air conditioning system.
1911/06/02 29 - george v crowned king of great britain and ireland at westminster abbey by randa
1911/10/-- 30 - world series nl new york (2) al philadelphia (4)
1911/11/04 30 *** harlan, edna [niece] - born to harlan, john thomas and griffin, ada ermon (harlan)
1911/11/04 30 *** harlan, luther [nephew] - born to harlan, john thomas and griffin, ada ermon (harlan) allen county kentucky
1912/--/-- 30 - american indian jim thorpe wins the olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
1912/--/-- 30 - american author edgar rice burroughs publishes tarzan of the apes.
1912/--/-- 30 - american writer willa cather publishes her first novel alexander's bridge.
1912/--/-- 30 - arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 30 - austrian psychologist alfred adler publishes the neurotic constitution.
1912/--/-- 30 - british explorers under scott reach the south pole but die during their return.
1912/--/-- 30 - french dada artist marcel duchamp paints nude descending a staircase.
1912/--/-- 30 - german geophysicist alfred wegener formulates his continental drift hypothesis.
1912/--/-- 30 - morocco is divided between france and spain after the second moroccan crisis.
1912/--/-- 30 - new mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state.
1912/--/-- 30 - new mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state; arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 30 - piltdown man is discovered in britain, beginning an elaborate scientific hoax.
1912/--/-- 30 - russian dancer vaslav nijinsky choreographs and dances in the afternoon of the faun.
1912/--/-- 30 - the balkan league begins the first balkan war against the ottoman empire.
1912/--/-- 30 - the liner titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
1912/--/-- 30 - theodore roosevelt campaigns for the u.s. presidency under the bull moose ticket.
1912/10/-- 31 - world series nl new york (3) al boston (4)
1913/--/-- 31 - american poet robert frost publishes a boy's will.
1913/--/-- 31 - bertrand russell and a.e. whitehead publish principia mathematica.
1913/--/-- 31 - danish physicist niels bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913/--/-- 31 - english novelist d.h. lawrence publishes sons and lovers.
1913/--/-- 31 - federal income tax is introduced in the u.s.
1913/--/-- 31 - igor stravinsky's ballet the rite of spring causes a scandal at the paris premiere.
1913/--/-- 31 - indian poet rabindranath tagore wins the nobel prize for literature.
1913/--/-- 31 - king george i of greece is assassinated; he is succeeded by constantine i
1913/--/-- 31 - marcel proust writes the first volume of remembrance of things past.
1913/--/-- 31 - medical missionary albert schweitzer builds a hospital at lambarene in africa.
1913/--/-- 31 - russian revolutionary joseph stalin is exiled to siberia by the tsarist government.
1913/--/-- 31 - samuel goldwyn founds his first movie company with jesse lasky and cecil b. de mille.
1913/--/-- 31 - socialists sidney and beatrice webb found the political journal the new statesman.
1913/--/-- 31 - the constructivism art movement begins in russia.
1913/--/-- 31 - the island of crete is united with greece.
1913/--/-- 31 - the second balkan war begins with a bulgarian attack on serbia.
1913/--/-- 31 - victoriano huerta leads a military coup in mexico; president francisco madero is killed.
1913/--/-- 31 - wilson is inaugurated as the 28th u.s. president; marshall becomes vice-president.
1913/--/-- 31 - woodrow wilson (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1913/10/-- 32 - world series nl new york (1) al philadelphia (4)
1914/--/-- 32 - a british expedition led by ernest shackleton is marooned in the antarctic.
1914/--/-- 32 - a german fleet defeats the british at coronel but is decimated at the falklands.
1914/--/-- 32 - archduke franz ferdinand is assassinated in sarajevo, precipitating world war i.
1914/--/-- 32 - austrian forces invade serbia but are repulsed with heavy losses.
1914/--/-- 32 - black composer w.c. handy writes the st. louis blues.
1914/--/-- 32 - charlie chaplin develops his little tramp character in a series of slapstick films.
1914/--/-- 32 - france, russia and britain (the allies) are at war with germany and austria-hungary.
1914/--/-- 32 - george bernard shaw's play pygmallion is performed for the first time.
1914/--/-- 32 - german forces invade belgium and france but are halted at the marne.
1914/--/-- 32 - german submarines begin to exact a heavy toll on allied shipping.
1914/--/-- 32 - japan joins the allies and captures the german base of tsingtao in china.
1914/--/-- 32 - mack sennett produces comedy films starring the keystone kops.
1914/--/-- 32 - parisian couturier coco chanel begins designing clothes.
1914/--/-- 32 - president wilson declares u.s. neutrality in world war i.
1914/--/-- 32 - russian forces invade east prussia but are defeated at the battle of tannenberg.
1914/--/-- 32 - the panama canal is completed, connecting the atlantic and pacific oceans.
1914/--/-- 32 - turkey declares war on the allies; britain annexes turkish cyprus.
1914/--/-- 32 - u.s. marines land at veracruz in mexico; president huerta resigns.
1914/--/-- 32 - world war i begins
1914/10/-- 33 - world series nl boston (4) al philadelphia (0)
1915/--/-- 33 - a german submarine torpedoes the british liner lusitania; 124 americans are killed.
1915/--/-- 33 - albert einstein formulates his general theory of relativity.
1915/--/-- 33 - anglo-french forces land at gallipoli in an attempt to force turkey out of the war.
1915/--/-- 33 - austrian writer franz kafka publishes the metamorphosis.
1915/--/-- 33 - d. w. griffith's movie the birth of a nation is shown for the first time.
1915/--/-- 33 - emiliano zapata and pancho villa lead rebellions against venustiano carranza in mexico.
1915/--/-- 33 - english author somerset maugham publishes of human bondage.
1915/--/-- 33 - german zeppelin airships begin bombing attacks on britain.
1915/--/-- 33 - italy joins the allies and invades austrian territory.
1915/--/-- 33 - president wilson recognizes the mexican government of venustiano carranza.
1915/--/-- 33 - serbia is overrun by the combined forces of austria, germany and bulgaria.
1915/--/-- 33 - the anzacs (australian and new zealand army corps) fight at gallipoli.
1915/--/-- 33 - the dada art and literary movement is formed.
1915/--/-- 33 - the germans use poison gas for the first time at ypres on the western front.
1915/--/-- 33 - u.s. marines land in haiti, beginning a 20-year period of military occupation.
1915/--/-- 33 - war poet rupert brooke's 1914 and other poems is published in the year he dies.
1915/10/-- 34 - world series nl philadelphia (1) al boston (4)
1915/12/17 34 *** allen, vera ruth [great niece] - born to griffin, nora lorene (allen)
1916/--/-- 34 - albert einstein proposes general theory of relativity
1916/--/-- 34 - allied forces withdraw from gallipoli after strong turkish opposition.
1916/--/-- 34 - american poet carl sandburg publishes his first book chicago poems.
1916/--/-- 34 - british forces assault the german line at the somme; tanks are used for the first time.
1916/--/-- 34 - german assaults at verdun are repulsed by the french with great loss of life.
1916/--/-- 34 - james joyce publishes a portrait of the artist as a young man.
1916/--/-- 34 - jeannette rankin becomes the first female member of u.s. house of representatives.
1916/--/-- 34 - lloyd george becomes prime minister of britain's wartime coalition government.
1916/--/-- 34 - margaret sanger is arrested for opening a birth-control clinic in brooklyn.
1916/--/-- 34 - north sea storms flood lowlands in the netherlands, 10,000 lives are lost.
1916/--/-- 34 - t. tzara dada
1916/--/-- 34 - the british and german fleets clash at the battle of jutland.
1916/--/-- 34 - the easter rising in dublin is suppressed within a week by the british.
1916/--/-- 34 - the russian brusilov offensive meets with success on the eastern front.
1916/--/-- 34 - the trans-siberian railway is completed -- the longest continuous rail line in the world.
1916/--/-- 34 - u.s. marines land in santo domingo to quell unrest; the occupation lasts until 1924.
1916/--/-- 34 - u.s. troops under pershing invade mexico in retaliation for raids by pancho villa.
1916/10/-- 35 - world series nl brooklyn (1) al boston (4)
1917/--/-- 35 - adoption of the convoy system reduces allied losses to german submarines.
1917/--/-- 35 - anglo-american poet t.s. eliot publishes the love song of j. alfred prufrock.
1917/--/-- 35 - art critic and writer guillaume apollinaire coins the term surrealism.
1917/--/-- 35 - astrophysicist karl schwarzschild develops the black hole theory.
1917/--/-- 35 - blacks migrate north and west
1917/--/-- 35 - british forces attack the germans in the third battle of ypres.
1917/--/-- 35 - british forces under allenby capture jerusalem and bagdhad from the turks.
1917/--/-- 35 - dutch artists theo van doesburg and piet mondrian found the magazine de stijl.
1917/--/-- 35 - english composer gustav holst completes the planets.
1917/--/-- 35 - english humorist p.g. wodehouse creates bertie wooster and his butler jeeves.
1917/--/-- 35 - germany announces the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917/--/-- 35 - italian forces are defeated by austria at the battle of caporetto.
1917/--/-- 35 - russian revolutions: communist u.s.s.r. formed
1917/--/-- 35 - selective service act creates draft
1917/--/-- 35 - swiss psychiatrist carl jung publishes the psychology of the unconscious.
1917/--/-- 35 - t.e. lawrence (lawrence of arabia) leads the arab revolt against the turks.
1917/--/-- 35 - the balfour declaration endorses a jewish national homeland in palestine.
1917/--/-- 35 - the germans and the bolshevik leaders sign an armistice at brest-litovsk.
1917/--/-- 35 - the germans help lenin return to russia from exile in switzerland.
1917/--/-- 35 - the jones act gives all puerto ricans the right to u.s. citizenship.
1917/--/-- 35 - the russian revolution begins; emperor nicholas ii abdicates.
1917/--/-- 35 - the u.s. purchases the virgin islands from denmark.
1917/--/-- 35 - the united states declares war on germany.
1917/--/-- 35 - the zimmermann note proposing a secret mexican alliance with germany is revealed.
1917/--/-- 35 - the disastrous nivelle offensive leads to mutinies in the french army.
1917/--/-- 35 - the earliest jazz recordings are made in new york city.
1917/--/-- 35 - the first pulitzer prizes are awarded for journalism, letters and music.
1917/--/-- 35 - the provisional kerensky government is deposed; bolsheviks seize power in russia.
1917/01/27 35 *** allen, vera ruth [great niece] - died
1917/02/14 35 *** allen, william paul [great nephew] - born to griffin, nora lorene (allen)
1917/04/30 35 *** zachary, wille clyde [nephew] - born to zachary, thomas marion and griffin, sarah lou ella (zachary)
1917/06/22 35 *** lee, mary emiline (griffin) [mother] - died albany, kentucky peolia cemetery
1917/10/-- 36 - world series nl new york (2) al chicago (4)
1918/--/-- 36 - advances by french, british and american armies force a general german retreat.
1918/--/-- 36 - american astronomer harlow shapley discovers the dimensions of the milky way.
1918/--/-- 36 - american author booth tarkington writes the magnificent ambersons.
1918/--/-- 36 - american forcesunder pershing help to stem the german offensive.
1918/--/-- 36 - an airmail service begins among new york, philadelphia and washington, d.c.
1918/--/-- 36 - an influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2 years).
1918/--/-- 36 - austria, poland and czechoslovakia become republics in the aftermath of world war i.
1918/--/-- 36 - bloomsbury group member lytton strachey publishes eminent victorians.
1918/--/-- 36 - bolshevik leader leon trotsky organizes the red army.
1918/--/-- 36 - civil war breaks out between the red and white russian armies.
1918/--/-- 36 - french composer erik satie writes socrate.
1918/--/-- 36 - german air ace manfred von richthofen (the red baron) is shot down and killed.
1918/--/-- 36 - nicholas ii, the last emperor of russia, and his family are executed by the bolsheviks.
1918/--/-- 36 - revolution breaks out in germany; emperor william ii flees to the netherlands.
1918/--/-- 36 - shapley determines sun is part of milky way galaxy
1918/--/-- 36 - the germans renew their assault on the western front in the ludendorff offensive.
1918/--/-- 36 - the weimar republic negotiates an armistice for germany, ending world war i.
1918/--/-- 36 - the world's largest telescope is installed at mount wilson observatory.
1918/--/-- 36 - women over 30 win the vote in britain.
1918/10/-- 37 - world series nl chicago (2) al boston (4)
1919/--/-- 37 - boxer jack dempsey knocks out jess willard to become heavyweight champion.
1919/--/-- 37 - british troops massacre demonstrators at amritsar in india.
1919/--/-- 37 - english aviators alcock and brown make the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919/--/-- 37 - french tennis star suzanne lenglen wins the wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1919/--/-- 37 - george gershwin composes his first hit song swanee.
1919/--/-- 37 - german communist rosa luxemburg is murdered after the sparticus uprising.
1919/--/-- 37 - italian leader benito mussolini organizes his fascist movement.
1919/--/-- 37 - jan smuts succeeds louis botha as prime minister of south africa.
1919/--/-- 37 - lady astor becomes the first woman member of the british house of commons.
1919/--/-- 37 - league of nations
1919/--/-- 37 - mexican revolutionary emiliano zapata is killed.
1919/--/-- 37 - russian-american anarchist emma goldman is deported to the soviet union.
1919/--/-- 37 - the bauhaus school of design is founded in germany by walter gropius.
1919/--/-- 37 - the chicago white sox conspire to fix the baseball world series.
1919/--/-- 37 - the german fleet is scuttled at scapa flow in the orkney islands.
1919/--/-- 37 - the league of nations is formed with geneva in switzerland as its headquarters.
1919/--/-- 37 - the paris peace conference opens at versailles.
1919/--/-- 37 - the polish-soviet war begins over territorial disputes.
1919/--/-- 37 - the radio corporation of america (rca) is formed.
1919/--/-- 37 - versailles peace treaty
1919/--/-- 37 - world war i ends
1919/10/-- 38 - world series nl cincinnati (5) al chicago (3)
1919/11/28 38 *** cummings, odell ansolem & griffin, rosa jane (cummings) [niece] - married
1920/--/-- 38 - 18th amendment prohibits alcohol
1920/--/-- 38 - 19th amendment gives women right to vote
1920/--/-- 38 - a home rule bill establishes parliaments for northern and southern ireland.
1920/--/-- 38 - admiral miklos horthy is appointed regent of hungary.
1920/--/-- 38 - adolf hitler forms the national socialist german workers' (nazi) party.
1920/--/-- 38 - american novelist sinclair lewis publishes main street.
1920/--/-- 38 - american tennis star bill tilden wins the wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1920/--/-- 38 - arturo alessandri becomes president of chile.
1920/--/-- 38 - british east africa becomes a crown colony as kenya.
1920/--/-- 38 - chaim weizmann is named president of the world zionist organization.
1920/--/-- 38 - dutch artist piet mondrian paints the composition with red, yellow and blue.
1920/--/-- 38 - french art deco glassmaker rene lalique opens a glass factory.
1920/--/-- 38 - german east africa is transferred to british control as tanganyika (now tanzania).
1920/--/-- 38 - mahatma gandhi begins a noncooperation campaign against british rule in india.
1920/--/-- 38 - mexican president venustiano carranza is deposed and killed by alvaro obregon.
1920/--/-- 38 - mystery writer agatha christie publishes her first hercule poirot story.
1920/--/-- 38 - russian artist aleksandr rodchenko designs the first mobile.
1920/--/-- 38 - the 18th amendment institutes the prohibition of alcohol throughout the u.s.
1920/--/-- 38 - the 19th amendment to the u.s. constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920/--/-- 38 - the russian civil war ends with victory for the bolsheviks.
1920/--/-- 38 - the u.s. senate votes against joining the league of nations.
1920/03/26 38 *** allen, james thomas [great nephew] - born to griffin, nora lorene (allen)
1920/10/-- 39 - world series nl brooklyn (2) al cleveland (5)
1920/10/31 39 *** cummings, margaret nell (claborn) [great niece] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1921/--/-- 39 - alexander rules the new kingdom of serbs, croats and slovenes.
1921/--/-- 39 - american anarchists nicola sacco and bartolomeo vanzetti are found guilty of murder.
1921/--/-- 39 - berber tribes under abd el-krim attack garrisons in spanish morocco.
1921/--/-- 39 - french cubist artist fernand leger paints three women.
1921/--/-- 39 - german surrealist artist max ernst paints l'elephant celebes.
1921/--/-- 39 - harding is inaugurated as the 29th u.s. president; coolidge becomes vice-president.
1921/--/-- 39 - japanese premier hara takashi is assassinated.
1921/--/-- 39 - latin lover rudolph valentino stars in the silent film the sheik.
1921/--/-- 39 - luigi pirandello's play six characters in search of an author is produced.
1921/--/-- 39 - mexican artist diego rivera begins painting murals depicting contemporary mexican life.
1921/--/-- 39 - the british broadcasting corporation (bbc) is created by royal charter.
1921/--/-- 39 - the irish free state becomes a self-governing dominion of britain.
1921/--/-- 39 - the reparations commission fixes germany's liability at 132 billion gold marks.
1921/--/-- 39 - w. l. mackenzie king is elected prime minister of canada for the first time.
1921/--/-- 39 - warren g. harding (republican) becomes president of the united states
1921/08/12 40 *** harlan, nora (dishon) [niece] - born to harlan, john thomas and griffin, ada ermon (harlan)
1921/10/-- 40 - world series nl new york (5) al new york (3)
1921/10/02 40 *** zachary, velma marie (sanders) [niece] - born to zachary, thomas marion and griffin, sarah lou ella (zachary)
1922/--/-- 40 - anglo-american poet t.s. eliot writes the waste land.
1922/--/-- 40 - constantine i abdicates as king of greece; is succeeded by george ii.
1922/--/-- 40 - dewitt wallace launches reader's digest magazine.
1922/--/-- 40 - egypt achieves independence from britain and becomes a monarchy under fuad i.
1922/--/-- 40 - emily post publishes etiquette in society, in business, in politics, and at home.
1922/--/-- 40 - english egyptologist howard carter excavates tutankhamen's tomb.
1922/--/-- 40 - english composer william walton composes facade.
1922/--/-- 40 - explorer roy chapman andrews discovers the first fossil dinosaur eggs in the gobi desert.
1922/--/-- 40 - irish poet and novelist james joyce publishes ulysses.
1922/--/-- 40 - irish revolutionary statesman michael collins is assassinated.
1922/--/-- 40 - kemal ataturk's attempts to restore turkish territory leads to the chanak crisis.
1922/--/-- 40 - mahatma gandhi is imprisoned for civil disobedience in india.
1922/--/-- 40 - robert flaherty produces the first major film documentary nanook of the north.
1922/--/-- 40 - the fascists march on rome; king victor emmanuel iii names mussolini prime minister.
1922/--/-- 40 - william t. cosgrave becomes the first prime minister of the irish free state.
1922/02/01 40 *** griffin, john henry [father] - died albany, kentucky peolia cemetery
1922/10/-- 41 - world series nl new york (4) al new york (0)
1923/--/-- 41 - "king" oliver's creole jazz band is the first black band to be recorded.
1923/--/-- 41 - adolf hitler's coup d'etat in munich fails; he is captured and imprisoned.
1923/--/-- 41 - aircraft designer willy messerschmitt opens a factory in germany.
1923/--/-- 41 - american poet e. e. cummings writes the novel the enormous room.
1923/--/-- 41 - briton hadden and henry r. luce found the weekly newsmagazine time.
1923/--/-- 41 - calvin coolidge (republican) becomes president of the united states
1923/--/-- 41 - child violinist yehudi menuhin makes his public debut at age 7.
1923/--/-- 41 - filmmaker cecil b. de mille directs the biblical epic the ten commandments.
1923/--/-- 41 - french and belgian troops occupy the ruhr to enforce german war reparations.
1923/--/-- 41 - general miguel primo de rivera rules as dictator of spain.
1923/--/-- 41 - irish poet william butler yeats wins the nobel prize for literature.
1923/--/-- 41 - italy becomes first fascist state
1923/--/-- 41 - jewish philosopher martin buber publishes ich und du (i and thou).
1923/--/-- 41 - physicist hermann oberth publishes the rocket into planetary space.
1923/--/-- 41 - spanish engineer juan de la cierva invents the autogiro.
1923/--/-- 41 - stanley baldwin becomes conservative prime minister of britain for the first time.
1923/--/-- 41 - the treaty of lausanne establishes the boundaries of modern turkey.
1923/--/-- 41 - tokyo and yokohama are destroyed by an earthquake; 100,000 are killed.
1923/--/-- 41 - turkey is declared a republic; ataturk kemal becomes the first president.
1923/--/-- 41 - vladimir zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube.
1923/--/-- 41 - warren g. harding dies; calvin coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th u.s. president.
1923/01/09 41 *** cummings, joe frank [great nephew] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1923/10/-- 42 - world series nl new york (2) al new york (4)
1924/--/-- 42 - adolf hitler publishes his nazi political tract mein kampf (my battle).
1924/--/-- 42 - arab leader ibn saud drives the hashimites from mecca.
1924/--/-- 42 - english novelist e.m. forster publishes a passage to india.
1924/--/-- 42 - french physicist louis de broglie proposes the wavelength nature of particles.
1924/--/-- 42 - german novelist thomas mann publishes the magic mountain.
1924/--/-- 42 - j. edgar hoover is appointed director of the bureau of investigation (renamed the fbi).
1924/--/-- 42 - ramsay macdonald forms the first labour government in britain.
1924/--/-- 42 - schrodinger proposes wave mechanics
1924/--/-- 42 - soviet leader lenin dies; new leader joseph stalin begins a purge of his opponents.
1924/--/-- 42 - the boston bruins become the first professional ice hockey team.
1924/--/-- 42 - the military declare a republic in greece; king george ii is exiled.
1924/--/-- 42 - u.s. congress investigates suspicious dealings in the teapot dome scandal.
1924/08/25 43 *** allen, geneva mae (davis) [great niece] - born to griffin, nora lorene (allen)
1924/09/14 43 *** cummings, mary elizabeth (rogers) [great niece] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1924/10/-- 43 - world series nl new york (3) al washington (4)
1925/--/-- 43 - ahmed zogu proclaims albania a monarchy and rules as king zog.
1925/--/-- 43 - american writer f. scott fitzgerald publishes the great gatsby.
1925/--/-- 43 - american writer john dos passos publishes manhattan transfer.
1925/--/-- 43 - astronomer edwin hubble composes a classification scheme for galaxies.
1925/--/-- 43 - automaker walter p. chrysler founds the chrysler corporation.
1925/--/-- 43 - black american dancer josephine baker stars in la revue negre in paris.
1925/--/-- 43 - clarence birdseye begins marketing his quick-frozen food packages.
1925/--/-- 43 - friedrich ebert dies; paul von hindenburg becomes president of the german republic.
1925/--/-- 43 - john t. scopes is tried in tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution.
1925/--/-- 43 - reza shah pahlavi rules as shah of iran.
1925/--/-- 43 - russian filmmaker sergei eisenstein directs the battleship potemkin.
1925/--/-- 43 - swiss-born artist paul klee paints fish magic.
1925/--/-- 43 - the locarno pact finalizes the treaties between the world war i protagonists.
1925/--/-- 43 - the new yorker magazine is founded in new york city.
1925/--/-- 43 - the all-black revue runnin' wild introduces the charleston dance craze.
1925/06/25 43 *** harlan, dora elsie (upchurch) [niece] - born to harlan, john thomas and griffin, ada ermon (harlan) born in clinton county kentucky on the 25th or maybe 21st june 1925
1925/10/-- 44 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al washington (3)
1925/10/19 44 *** ewing, annie (harlan) & harlan, arthur [nephew] - married
1926/--/-- 44 - american artist georgia o'keeffe paints her flower portrait black iris.
1926/--/-- 44 - american golfer bobby jones wins the u.s. open and the british open tournaments.
1926/--/-- 44 - american physicist robert goddard launches the first liquid-propellant rocket.
1926/--/-- 44 - antonio oscar de fragoso carmona becomes president after a military coup in portugal.
1926/--/-- 44 - chiang kai-shek organizes the northern expedition to unite china.
1926/--/-- 44 - eamon de valera organizes the fianna fail party in the republic of ireland.
1926/--/-- 44 - english author a.a. milne writes the children's book winnie-the-pooh.
1926/--/-- 44 - french troops in morocco subdue a tribal rebellion led by abd el-krim.
1926/--/-- 44 - germany is admitted to the league of nations.
1926/--/-- 44 - hirohito becomes emperor of japan.
1926/--/-- 44 - nobile, amundsen and ellsworth pilot the airship norge over the north pole.
1926/--/-- 44 - richard e. byrd and floyd bennett make the first airplane flight over the north pole.
1926/--/-- 44 - russian composer dmitry shostakovich premiers his first symphony.
1926/--/-- 44 - the general strike breaks out in britain involving 3 million workers.
1926/--/-- 44 - the harlem globetrotters basketball team is organized in chicago.
1926/--/-- 44 - u.s. marines land in nicaragua to suppress a revolution (they depart in 1933).
1926/02/11 44 *** cummings, johnny anselum [great nephew] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1926/09/27 45 *** harlan, arthur david [great nephew] - born to harlan, arthur and ewing, annie (harlan)
1926/10/-- 45 - world series nl st. louis (4) al new york (3)
1927/--/-- 45 - american dancer isadora duncan is killed in a tragic car accident.
1927/--/-- 45 - american writer thornton wilder publishes the bridge of san luis rey.
1927/--/-- 45 - baseball player babe ruth scores a record 60 home runs for the new york yankees.
1927/--/-- 45 - blackface singer al jolson appears in the first sound motion picture the jazz singer.
1927/--/-- 45 - charles lindbergh flies solo nonstop from new york to paris in 33.5 hours.
1927/--/-- 45 - civil war in china
1927/--/-- 45 - comedy team laurel and hardy appear in their first film putting pants on philip.
1927/--/-- 45 - dancer martha graham opens her first dance studio in new york city.
1927/--/-- 45 - duke ellington's jazz band stars at harlem's cotton club in new york city.
1927/--/-- 45 - english novelist virginia woolf writes to the lighthouse.
1927/--/-- 45 - finnish architect alvar aalto designs the turun sanomat newspaper building.
1927/--/-- 45 - georges lemaitre proposes an expanding model for the creation of the universe.
1927/--/-- 45 - german filmmaker fritz lang directs the futuristic film metropolis.
1927/--/-- 45 - german-swiss author hermann hesse publishes steppenwolf.
1927/--/-- 45 - helen newington wills wins the wimbledon tennis championship.
1927/--/-- 45 - lindbergh crosses atlantic non-stop
1927/--/-- 45 - the iron guard fascist organization is founded in romania.
1927/10/-- 46 - world series nl pittsburgh (0) al new york (4)
1927/11/16 46 *** cummings, eula mae sloan "poodle" (norris) [great niece] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1928/--/-- 46 - amelia earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the atlantic.
1928/--/-- 46 - american anthropologist margaret mead publishes coming of age in samoa.
1928/--/-- 46 - american comedy team amos 'n' andy produce their first radio show.
1928/--/-- 46 - american composer virgil thomson writes the opera four saints in three acts.
1928/--/-- 46 - arturo toscanini is made conductor of the new york philharmonic.
1928/--/-- 46 - ben hecht and charles macarthur's play the front page is produced.
1928/--/-- 46 - bertolt brecht and kurt weill collaborate on the play the threepenny opera.
1928/--/-- 46 - british bacteriologist alexander fleming discovers penicillin.
1928/--/-- 46 - chiang kai-shek captures peking; the kuomintang government is established.
1928/--/-- 46 - english novelist evelyn waugh publishes decline and fall.
1928/--/-- 46 - english physicist paul dirac formulates a mathematical description of elementary particles.
1928/--/-- 46 - french composer maurice ravel composes the ballet bolero.
1928/--/-- 46 - heisenberg's uncertainty principle
1928/--/-- 46 - luis bunuel and salvador dali collaborate on the surrealist film un chien andalou.
1928/--/-- 46 - spanish poet federico garcia lorca publishes gypsy ballads.
1928/--/-- 46 - the chaco war breaks out between bolivia and paraguay over territorial disputes.
1928/--/-- 46 - the kellog-briand pact outlawing war is signed by 15 nations.
1928/--/-- 46 - the first five-year plan for economic reform begins in the soviet union.
1928/--/-- 46 - walt disney's mickey mouse appears in steamboat willie, the first sound cartoon.
1928/07/14 46 *** harlan, john howard [great nephew] - born to harlan, arthur and ewing, annie (harlan) born at home in clinton co., kentucky
1928/10/-- 47 - world series nl st. louis (0) al new york (4)
1929/--/-- 47 - alexander institutes absolute rule as king of yugoslavia.
1929/--/-- 47 - american explorer richard e. byrd flies over the south pole.
1929/--/-- 47 - american novelist william faulkner publishes the sound and the fury.
1929/--/-- 47 - british poet robert graves publishes his war memoir goodbye to all that.
1929/--/-- 47 - erich maria remarque publishes his war novel all quiet on the western front.
1929/--/-- 47 - ernest hemingway writes the war novel a farewell to arms.
1929/--/-- 47 - french artist and writer jean cocteau publishes les enfants terribles.
1929/--/-- 47 - heinrich himmler is appointed head of the ss, hitler's blackshirted elite guard.
1929/--/-- 47 - herbert c. hoover (republican) becomes president of the united states
1929/--/-- 47 - hoover is inaugurated as the 31st u.s. president; curtis becomes vice-president.
1929/--/-- 47 - jews and arabs clash at the wailing wall in jerusalem.
1929/--/-- 47 - seven chicago gangsters are machine-gunned in the st. valentine's day massacre.
1929/--/-- 47 - soviet leader joseph stalin exiles leon trotsky.
1929/--/-- 47 - stock market crashes
1929/--/-- 47 - the lateran treaty creates the independent state of the vatican city.
1929/--/-- 47 - the museum of modern art (moma) is founded in new york city.
1929/--/-- 47 - the wall street crash leads to a world-wide economic depression.
1929/--/-- 47 - the workers party of america is renamed the communist party of the united states.
1929/--/-- 47 - the first academy awards are presented; wings wins best-picture prize.
1929/10/-- 48 - world series nl chicago (1) al philadelphia (4)
1930/--/-- 48 - american artist edward hopper paints early sunday morning.
1930/--/-- 48 - american astronomer clyde w. tombaugh discovers the planet pluto.
1930/--/-- 48 - american poet hart crane publishes the bridge.
1930/--/-- 48 - artist grant wood paints american gothic.
1930/--/-- 48 - british engineer frank whittle patents a gas turbine engine for jet aircraft.
1930/--/-- 48 - carol ii is proclaimed king of romania.
1930/--/-- 48 - dashiell hammett publishes the detective novel the maltese falcon.
1930/--/-- 48 - english-born american writer w. h. auden publishes his poems.
1930/--/-- 48 - getulio vargas is appointed president of brazil after a military coup.
1930/--/-- 48 - haile selassie is declared emperor of ethiopia.
1930/--/-- 48 - marlene dietrich stars in josef von sternberg's film the blue angel.
1930/--/-- 48 - noel coward's play private lives is produced in london.
1930/--/-- 48 - the british airship r101 crashes in france.
1930/--/-- 48 - the city of constantinople is re-named istanbul.
1930/--/-- 48 - vannevar bush develops a differential analyzer, an early type of analog computer.
1930/--/-- 48 - worldwide depression begins
1930/04/22 48 *** cummings, bruce tartar [great nephew] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1930/10/-- 49 - world series nl st. louis (2) al philadelphia (4)
1930/11/01 49 *** cross, ermon (harlan) & harlan, floyd [nephew] - married albany, ky
1930/11/01 49 *** lawson, ruby ermon (harlan) & harlan, luther [nephew] - married albany, ky
1931/--/-- 49 - american cartoonist chester gould creates the adventure comic strip dick tracy.
1931/--/-- 49 - american journalist and writer damon runyon publishes guys and dolls.
1931/--/-- 49 - american writer pearl buck publishes the good earth.
1931/--/-- 49 - auguste piccard makes the first manned balloon flight into the stratosphere.
1931/--/-- 49 - ben shahn begins a series of paintings inspired by the sacco-vanzetti case.
1931/--/-- 49 - chicago gangster al capone is jailed for income tax evasion.
1931/--/-- 49 - explorer george hubert wilkins makes a submarine voyage under the arctic ice.
1931/--/-- 49 - japanese forces occupy manchuria.
1931/--/-- 49 - lawrence invents cyclotron
1931/--/-- 49 - organic chemist w. h. carothers invents nylon, the first successful synthetic fiber.
1931/--/-- 49 - radio astronomy begins when karl jansky detects radio waves from space.
1931/--/-- 49 - spain is declared a republic; king alfonso xiii abdicates.
1931/--/-- 49 - the empire state building becomes the tallest building in the world.
1931/--/-- 49 - the star-spangled banner becomes the u.s. national anthem.
1931/09/08 50 *** harlan, mary josephine (lowhorn) [great niece] - born to harlan, floyd and cross, ermon (harlan)
1931/09/24 50 *** zachary, wille clyde [nephew] - died glenwood cem. liberty - casey co. ky
1931/10/-- 50 - world series nl st. louis (4) al philadelphia (3)
1932/--/-- 50 - american physicist carl d. anderson discovers the positron.
1932/--/-- 50 - american physicist carl d. anderson discovers the positron.
1932/--/-- 50 - american sculptor alexander calder creates his first mobile.
1932/--/-- 50 - american southern author erskine caldwell publishes tobacco road.
1932/--/-- 50 - antonio de oliveira salazar assumes dictatorial powers as premier of portugal.
1932/--/-- 50 - arab leader ibn saud founds the kingdom of saudi arabia.
1932/--/-- 50 - british author aldous huxley publishes brave new world.
1932/--/-- 50 - charles lindbergh's infant son is kidnapped.
1932/--/-- 50 - eamon de valera is elected president of the republic of ireland.
1932/--/-- 50 - engelbert dollfuss is elected chancellor of austria.
1932/--/-- 50 - english physicist james chadwick discovers the neutron.
1932/--/-- 50 - presidential nominee franklin d. roosevelt pledges a new deal.
1932/--/-- 50 - presidential nominee franklin d. roosevelt pledges a new deal.
1932/--/-- 50 - radio city music hall opens in new york city's rockefeller center.
1932/--/-- 50 - revolution in siam (thailand) replaces the monarchy with a constitutional government.
1932/--/-- 50 - sir oswald mosley founds the british union of fascists.
1932/--/-- 50 - the bonus army of war veterans is dispersed by troops in washington, d.c.
1932/--/-- 50 - the royal shakespeare theater opens at stratford-on-avon, england.
1932/--/-- 50 - the first particle accelerator is built at the cavendish laboratory in england.
1932/03/29 50 *** cummings, billy odell [great nephew] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1932/10/-- 51 - world series nl chicago (0) al new york (4)
1933/--/-- 51 - a fossilized skull of the prehistoric steinheim man is found in germany.
1933/--/-- 51 - actor charles laughton stars in the film the private life of henry viii.
1933/--/-- 51 - busby berkeley choreographs the dances for the film gold diggers of 1933.
1933/--/-- 51 - dancers fred astaire and ginger rogers star in the film flying down to rio.
1933/--/-- 51 - edwin armstrong invents frequency modulation (fm) to eliminate radio static.
1933/--/-- 51 - fiorello la guardia is elected mayor of new york city for the first time.
1933/--/-- 51 - frances perkins becomes the first woman cabinet member in u.s. history.
1933/--/-- 51 - franklin d. roosevelt (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1933/--/-- 51 - french novelist and political activist andre malraux publishes man's fate.
1933/--/-- 51 - fulgencio batista leads a military coup against gerardo machado y morales in cuba.
1933/--/-- 51 - jimmy and tommy dorsey found their first swing band.
1933/--/-- 51 - joseph goebbels is appointed as minister of propaganda for the nazi party.
1933/--/-- 51 - mae west stars in the films she done him wrong and i'm no angel.
1933/--/-- 51 - norwegian fascist vidkun quisling founds the national unity party.
1933/--/-- 51 - president paul von hindenburg names adolf hitler as chancellor of germany.
1933/--/-- 51 - roosevelt begins "new deal"
1933/--/-- 51 - roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd u.s. president; garner becomes vice-president.
1933/--/-- 51 - the 21st amendment ends the prohibition era in the u.s.
1933/--/-- 51 - the marx brothers star in the classic comedy film duck soup.
1933/--/-- 51 - the national recovery administration (nra) is launched by president roosevelt.
1933/--/-- 51 - the nazis erect the first concentration camps in germany.
1933/--/-- 51 - the public works administration (pwa) is formed to fund public construction projects.
1933/--/-- 51 - the reichstag fire gives the nazis a pretext for outlawing the german communist party.
1933/--/-- 51 - the stavisky affair causes a financial scandal in france.
1933/10/-- 52 - world series nl new york (4) al washington (1)
1934/--/-- 52 - adolf hitler becomes "fueher" of germany
1934/--/-- 52 - alexander, king of yugoslavia, is assassinated; his son peter ii succeeds him.
1934/--/-- 52 - american cartoonist al capp begins the comic strip li'l abner.
1934/--/-- 52 - chancellor engelbert dollfuss is murdered by austrian nazis.
1934/--/-- 52 - cole porter writes the score for the broadway musical anything goes.
1934/--/-- 52 - drought leads to severe dust storms in the dust bowl region of the great plains.
1934/--/-- 52 - elijah muhammad becomes leader of the nation of islam (the black muslims).
1934/--/-- 52 - fermi creates plutonium
1934/--/-- 52 - george balanchine and lincoln kirstein found the school of american ballet.
1934/--/-- 52 - henry miller publishes the tropic of cancer. (it is banned in the u.s. until 1961.)
1934/--/-- 52 - hitler becomes fuhrer (leader) of germany after hindenburg's death.
1934/--/-- 52 - john dillinger, public enemy number one, is killed by the fbi.
1934/--/-- 52 - lazaro cardenas is chosen by plutarco calles as president of mexico.
1934/--/-- 52 - lillian hellman's play the children's hour is produced.
1934/--/-- 52 - mao tse-tung leads the chinese communists on the long march.
1934/--/-- 52 - naturalist charles w. beebe makes a record dive of 3,028 ft in a bathyscaphe.
1934/--/-- 52 - sa leader ernst roehm is assassinated on the orders of hitler.
1934/--/-- 52 - surrealist artist rene magritte paints the human condition.
1934/--/-- 52 - the british ocean liner queen mary is launched.
1934/--/-- 52 - the federal communications commission (fcc) is formed to regulate broadcasting.
1934/--/-- 52 - the securities and exchange commission (sec) is formed to protect u.s. investors.
1934/03/15 52 *** griffin, delia ann (crabtree) - died peolia cemetery
1934/07/30 53 *** harlan, baylos eugene [great nephew] - born to harlan, arthur and ewing, annie (harlan)
1934/08/25 53 *** cummings, peggy jane (creekmore) [great niece] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1934/09/15 53 *** harlan, doris adajeome (lewis) [great niece] - born to harlan, luther and lawson, ruby ermon (harlan)
1934/10/-- 53 - world series nl st. louis (4) al detroit (3)
in 1881 transportation was by:
foot
horse
bicycle
train
steamboat
by 1934 transportation was by:
balloon
car & bus
diesel ship
propeller airplane
in addition.
by 1934 transportation by:
horse
had been discontinued.
in 1881 communications was by:
word of mouth
post office
telegraph
by 1934 communications was by:
telephone
in addition.
in 1881 food preparation was by:
wood
by 1934 food preparation was by:
gas
refrigeration
in addition.
in 1881 entertainment was by:
social intercourse
organized sports
travel
professional sports
movies
radio
television
theme parks
computer
in 1881 health care was by:
operations
anesthetic
x-rays
mri
in 1881 war making was by:
calvary
gun
artillery
machine guns
submarine
iron clad ships
mines
by 1934 war making was by:
tank
tnt
chemical agents
aeroplane
in addition.
by 1934 war making by:
calvary
had been discontinued.
in 1881 navigation was by:
stars & maps
compass
by 1934 navigation was by:
radio signals
in addition.
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