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Harry Price & Related Events |
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1900 |
July
28 Bull sisters see apparition of 'Nun' on lawn at Borley
Rectory
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July
4 Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong born
July
19 Paris Metro underground system opens
September
30 End of Boer War
November
30 Oscar Wilde dies in Paris
December
14 Quantum Theory unveiled by Prof. Max Planck
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1901 |
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January
22 Queen Victoria dies
February
2 Violinist Jascha Heifitz born
September
9 Painter Toulouse-Lautrec dies
December
10 First Nobel Prizes awarded
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1902 |
August
18 HP's mother dies
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February
24 London Post Office telephone exchange opens
May
1 George Melies film A Trip to the Moon shown in Paris
August
9 Edward VII is crowned
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1903 |
Willi
Schneider born
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January
19 Tour de France is first announced
June
16 Ford Motor Company formed
June
25 George Orwell born
July
17 Painter James Whistler dies
December
17 Wright brothers make first manned flight
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1904 |
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March
16 Composer Edward Elgar knighted
May
9 Explorer Henry Morton Stanley dies
August
29 Third modern Olympics ends in St. Louis
September
1 Helen Keller graduates from Radcliffe College
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1905 |
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January
22 Bloody Sunday massacre in St. Petersburg
March
31 The Return of Sherlock Holmes published in the Strand
magazine
July
1 Albert Einstein publishes Theory of Relativity
September
18 Actress Greta Garbo born
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1906 |
July
7 HP's father dies
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April 19 San Francisco earthquake
July
7 First UK hot air balloon race
September
25 Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich born
December
15 Piccadilly tube line opens
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1907 |
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February
14 Christobel Pankhurst & 56 other suffregettes appear in
court
May
22 Actor Laurence Olivier born
July
25 First camping trip organised by Robert Baden-Powell
November
13 First helicopter flight by Frenchman Paul Cornu
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1908 |
May
18 HP appointed Honorary Curator of Numismatics of Ripon Naturalists' Club and Scientific Literary Association
July
27 Rudi Schneider born
August
1 HP marries Constance Mary Knight at Pulborough
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May
20 Actor James Stewart born
June
11 Rotherhithe tunnel opens
June
21 Composer Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov dies
August
12 First Ford 'Model T' motor car produced
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1909 |
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March
15 Selfridge's department store opens in Oxford Street
July
25 Frenchman Louis Bleriot flies across English Channel
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