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Lester Earl TAYLOR

Male 1906 - 1910  (3 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1906 
  • 1906: Introduction of free school meals for poor children
  • 10 Feb 1906: Launching of HMS Dreadnought, first turbine-driven battleship
  • 15 Mar 1906: Rolls-Royce Ltd registered
  • 26 May 1906: Vauxhall Bridge opened in London
  • 20 Sep 1906: Launching of Cunard's RMS Mauretania on the Tyne
1907 
  • 1907: New Zealand becomes a Dominion
  • 1907: Imperial College, London, is established
  • 1907: First airship flies over London
  • 1907: Lumiere develops a process for colour photography
  • Jul 1907: Leo Hendrik Baekeland patents Bakelite, the first plastic invented that held its shape after being heated
  • 1 Aug 1907: Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island
  • 9 Nov 1907: The Cullinan Diamond presented to Edward VII on his birthday
1908 
  • 1908: Coal Mines Regulation Act in Britain limits men to an eight hour day
  • 1908: Separate courts for juveniles established in Britain
  • 1908: Lord Baden-Powell starts the Boy Scout movement
  • 1 Jul 1908: SOS became effective as an international signal of distress
  • 12 Aug 1908: First 'Model T' Ford made
1909 
  • 1909: Beveridge Report prompts creation of labour Exchanges
  • 1909: Peary reaches the north pole
  • 1909: First commercial manufacture of Bakelite – start of the plastic age
  • 1 Jan 1909: Old Age Pensions Act came into force
  • 16 Jan 1909: Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
  • 15 Mar 1909: Selfridges department store opens in London
  • 25 Jul 1909: Bleriot flies across the Channel (36 minutes, Calais to Dover)
1910 
  • 1910: Railway strike and coal strikes in Britain
  • 1910: Constitutional crisis in Britain
  • 1910: Dr Crippen caught by radio telegraphy; hanged 23 Nov at Pentonville
  • 1910: Madame Curie isolates radium
  • 1910: Halley's comet reappears
  • 1910: Tango becomes popular in North America and Europe
  • 6 May 1910: Edward VII dies – George V becomes King