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Tom Kiely
1869Aug, 25

Tom Kiely

Tom Kiely, British-Irish decathlete (d. 1951)
Thomas "Tom" Francis Kiely (25 August 1869 – 6 November 1951) was an Irish athlete.

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Events on 1869

  • 6Mar

    Periodic table

    Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
  • 28Apr

    First Transcontinental Railroad

    Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
  • 15May

    Susan B. Anthony

    Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
  • 25Jul

    Meiji Restoration

    The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
  • 22Nov

    Clipper

    In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched and is one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.