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★15 Jan 1857
In British Hong Kong, hundreds of Europeans were non-lethally poisoned by arsenic in bread from a locally-owned bakery, leading to geopolitical tension.

★16 Jan 1862
The beam of a pumping engine broke at the Hartley Colliery in Northumberland, England, and fell down the shaft, trapping the men below and resulting in the deaths of 204.

★15 Mar 1875
Archbishop of New York John McCloskey was named the first cardinal in the United States.

★16 Jun 1883
More than 180 out of 1,100 children died in the Victoria Hall stampede in Sunderland, England, when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show.

★06 Jun 1894
Colorado Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered his state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.

★07 Jun 1900
American temperance activist Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and destroyed its stock of alcoholic beverages with rocks.

★23 Jan 1909
Two men committed an armed robbery in Tottenham, London, and led police on a two-hour tram chase, ending in the perpetrators' suicides.

★12 Aug 1914
World War I: Despite the Belgian victory in the Battle of Halen, they were ultimately unable to stop the German invasion of Belgium.

★25 Nov 1917
World War I: German troops invaded Portuguese East Africa in an attempt to escape superior British forces to the north and resupply from captured Portuguese materiel.

★06 Mar 1933
The Nazi Party took the first step in the Gleichschaltung process by passing the Enabling Act, giving the government the right to make laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.

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Borch.. Martin Borch, Architekt, Sø         n af Proprietæ         r Frederik Borch (f. 1807, d. 1868) og Johanne Frederikke f. Frausing (f. 1809, d. 1886) er fø         dt paa Hovedgaarden Skjern i Jylland den i. Marts 1852. Efter sin Konfirmation kom han i Tø         mrerlæ         re, blev Svend 1870, men fik allerede i Oktober 1869 Adgang til Kunstakademiet, hvorfra han den 19. Marts 1877 fik Afgangsbevis som Architekt. Den n. Marts 1878 tilkendtes den mindre Guldmedaille ham for ?En Bibliotheksbygning±          i gothisk Stil. Efter at han i 1880 havde æ         gtet Marie Henriette Nyrop, en Datter af Sognepræ         st Christoffer Nyrop (f. 1805, d. 1879) og Helene f. Ahlmann (f. 1807, d. 1874), foretog han en Studierejse til Italien, besø         gte i 1889 Verdensudstillingen i Paris med ministeriel Understø         ttelse og var i 1891, med en Rejseunderstø         ttelse paa l000 Kr. fra Akademiet, atter i Italien. Af hans Arbejder kan fremhæ         ves Opfø         relsen af Christiansminde under Jæ         gerspris Stiftelse (1887), Ombygning af Herregaar

den Holstenhus i Fyn (1890), samt Opfø         relsen af Provinsarkivet i Odense (1893); for de dertil hø         rende udstillede

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