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William Jacob WINGO

Male 1918 - 1993  (74 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1918 
  • 1918: UK - Influenza Epidemic
  • 1918: Russia - Czar Nicholas II and his family are killed
  • 1918: UK - Summer:Great Influenza Epidemic begins, reaches height end of year, new outbreak first quarter of 1919: England and Wales lose 150,000 (15,000 in London alone)
  • 1918: UK - Final casualties for World War I - almost 1 million British Empire men killed, about 3 million maimed (744,000 killed are from UK)
  • 1918: UK - Women over 30 given the vote (complete voting equality with men comes in 1928), all men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons) given vote
  • 1918: UK - Consumer purchasing power now about 1/3 of what it was in 1914
  • 1918: USA - Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
  • 1918: UK - Police strikes this year and the next
  • 9 Nov 1918: Europe - Kaiser abdicates, peace signed two days later at Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
1923 
1924 
1925 
1926 
10 1927 
11 1928 
12 1929 
13 1930 
14 1931 
15 1932 
16 1933 
17 1934 
18 1935 
19 1936 
20 1937 
21 1938 
22 1939 
23 1940 
24 1941 
25 1942 
26 1943 
27 1944 
  • 1944: France - D-Day landings
  • 1944: France - First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired
  • 1944: Berlin, Germany - Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt
  • 1944: USA - The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
  • 1944: USA - Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
28 1945 
29 1946 
30 1947 
31 1948 
32 1949 
33 1950 
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35 1952 
36 1953 
37 1954 
38 1955 
39 1956 
40 1957 
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42 1959 
43 1960 
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45 1962 
46 1963 
47 1964 
48 1965 
49 1966 
50 1967 
51 1968 
52 1969 
53 1970 
54 1971 
55 1972 
56 1973 
57 1974 
58 1975 
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60 1977 
61 1978 
62 1979 
63 1980 
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65 1982 
66 1983 
67 1984 
68 1985 
69 1986 
70 1987 
71 1988 
72 1989 
73 1990 
74 1991 
75 1992 
  • 1992: Waco, TX, USA - Cult Compound in Waco, Texas Raided
76 1993