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Decade.png 1880s: )    Year.png 1880 Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Okhranka group photo.jpg
The Russian Okhrana is founded. The Tsarist secret police, notorious for its use of agents provocateurs, killed maybe 26,000 people extra-judicially in its 37 years existence.
Government changes in the UK and US

By 1880, the UK was sending over 6,500 tons of opium every year to China.[1]

Events

Date unknown

 

Events

EventStartEnd
Pax Brittanica18151915
Victorian era18401901

 

New Groups

GroupImageTypeDescription
National Bank of RomaniaSigla BNR.jpg
Institut Le RoseyInstitutleRosey.JPGVery posh Swiss boarding school
Dresser IndustriesGroup.pngCommercialTexas oil an gas sector supplier
University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern California seal.pngMilitary ranks
Space-grant
Sea-grant
Private research university in Los Angeles, California

 

==A Quotation== 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
Douglas MacArthur26 January 1880Arkansas
Little Rock
5 April 1964Soldier
William Clayton7 February 1880Mississippi
Tupelo
8 February 1966Businessperson
Samuel Hoare24 February 1880London
England
7 May 1959Diplomat
Spook
Politician
Ivar Kreuger2 March 1880Sweden
Kalmar
1932BusinesspersonSwedish match tycoon who was shot dead in a Paris hotel in 1932
Walter Guinness29 March 18806 November 1944Politician
Businessperson
Lord Moyne. An Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. Was Minister of State in UN Mandate Palestine in 1944 when he was assassinated by members of Lehi
Oswald Spengler29 May 18808 May 1936Historian
Jeannette Rankin11 June 1880Montana
U.S.
Missoula County
18 May 1973Politician
Pacifist
US Representative who voted against entry into BOTH WW1 and WW2, in 1941 as the sole member of Congress.
Robert McCormick30 July 1880Chicago
Illinois
1 April 1955Soldier
Lawyer
Publisher
H.L. Mencken12 September 188029 January 1956Journalist
Ralph Flanders28 September 1880Vermont
Barnet
19 February 1970Politician
Central banker
Businessperson
Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston who attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s.
Juan March4 October 1880Majorca10 March 1962Banker
Criminal
Deep politician
Spanish business magnate, arms and tobacco smuggler, banker and deep politician.
George Marshall31 December 1880Pennsylvania
Uniontown
16 October 1959Politician
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