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★03 Jan 1888
The 36-inch at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, the largest in the world until 1897, was used for the first time.

★26 Jun 1889
Bangui, the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic, was founded in French Congo.

★10 Jun 1918
World War I: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Szent István off the Dalmatian coast.

★25 Aug 1920
Polish forces under Józef Piłsudski successfully forced the Russians to withdraw from Warsaw at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive battle of the Polish–Soviet War.

★09 Aug 1934
The Blue Lotus, the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and noted for its emphasis on countering negative misconceptions of Chinese people, began serialisation.

★01 Apr 1935
India decided it wanted to control all the money in the country.

★05 Apr 1944
Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.

★17 Aug 1945
Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaimed the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire.

★05 Jan 1949
In his State of the Union speech, U.S. President Harry S. Truman announced, "Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.".

★04 Dec 1949
Duncan Stewart, the British governor of Sarawak, was fatally stabbed in Sibu during his first visit to the colony.

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Gartneriet på Jernbanevej 17, af mange kendt som Frausing Borchs Gartneri.

Det blev etableret i 1843 af Hans Madsen, daværende blegemester, i 1874 overtaget af hans søn Mads Nielsen og i 1914 af dennes søn Hans Nielsen. I dets velmagtsdage, omkring 1918, havde gartneriet 1½ td. land ved Smedelundsgade og derudover 6000 kvadratmeter andetsteds. Omkring 1920 overtog Frausing Borch gartneriet og drev det indtil 1963.

Den kendte blomsterhandler Kaj Larsen overtog det derefter, for i 1973 at flytte til adressen Ahlgade 64. I dag har Kaj Larsen Blomster til huse på Lundemarksvej 23 A.