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1878Apr, 5

Paul Weinstein (athlete)

Paul Weinstein, German high jumper (d. 1964)
Paul Weinstein (5 April 1878; 16 August 1964) was a German athlete who competed in the early twentieth century. He was born in Wallendorf.Weinstein won the bronze medal in Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics in the high jump. Samuel Jones won the gold medal and Garrett Serviss won silver. Weinstein also competed in the pole vault event and finished seventh.

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    Treaty of San Stefano

    The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; a few months afterwards the Congress of Berlin stripped its status to a vassal principality of the Ottoman Empire.
  • 25May

    Comic opera

    Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
  • 10Jun

    Treaty of San Stefano

    League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
  • 15Jun

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  • 22Oct

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