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Lillian Mae SPECKELS

Female 1915 - 1987  (72 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1915 
1916 
1917 
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 
10 1924 
11 1925 
12 1926 
13 1927 
14 1928 
15 1929 
16 1930 
17 1931 
18 1932 
19 1933 
20 1934 
21 1935 
22 1936 
23 1937 
24 1938 
25 1939 
26 1940 
27 1941 
28 1942 
29 1943 
30 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.
31 1945 
32 1946 
33 1947 
34 1948 
35 1949 
36 1950 
37 1951 
38 1952 
39 1953 
40 1954 
41 1955 
42 1956 
43 1957 
44 1958 
45 1959 
46 1960 
47 1961 
48 1962 
49 1963 
50 1964 
51 1965 
52 1966 
53 1967 
54 1968 
55 1969 
56 1970 
57 1971 
58 1972 
59 1973 
60 1974 
61 1975 
62 1976 
63 1977 
64 1978 
65 1979 
66 1980 
67 1981 
68 1982 
69 1983 
70 1984 
71 1985 
72 1986 
73 1987