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Michael Patrick Smollen (1868 - 1949)
Michael Patrick Smollen was born in 1868. He was born to Smollen Michael Smollen and Ellen Smollen, and we currently have no other siblings in his family tree. He died in 1949 in Wgul, Australia at 81 years of age.
Michael Patrick Smollen Biography
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Michael Patrick Smollen
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Michael Smollen died in in Wgul, Australia
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Michael Patrick Smollen lived
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Michael Patrick Smollen died in 1949 in Wgul, Australia at 81 years of age. He was born in 1868. He was born to Smollen Michael Smollen and Ellen Smollen, and we currently have no other siblings in his family tree.
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1868 - 1949 World Events
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In 1868, in the year that Michael Patrick Smollen was born, on July 9th, The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed African Americans full citizenship and equal protection under the law. It also gave all persons in the United States due process of law. The former Confederate states hotly contested the amendment but were forced to go along so that they could regain representation in Congress
In 1877, when he was only 9 years old, on March 2nd, the U.S. presidential election of 1876 was ended with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner. Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote in November 1876 but 20 votes in the electoral college were in dispute. An informal agreement was made in which Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, ending Reconstruction in the South. So, on March 4th, Rutherford B. Hayes became the 19th President of the United States.
In 1899, Michael was 31 years old when the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
In 1910, when he was 42 years old, the Mexican revolution began. Dictator Porfirio Díaz had ruled for 35 years and was nationally unpopular. When elections were held in 1910 and a rigged election kept Diaz in office. The uprising began - and lasted for another 10 years.
In 1949, in the year of Michael Patrick Smollen's passing, on January 25th, the first Emmy Awards (for television) were handed out in Los Angeles. Shirley Dinsdale won for the Most Outstanding Television Personality and Pantomime Quiz Time earned an Emmy for the Most Popular Television Program.
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