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Births on July 15

1911Jul, 15

Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton

Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, English geographer and politician, Secretary of State for Air (d. 1994)
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, (15 July 1911 – 22 September 1994), was a British geographer, Royal Air Force officer and Labour Party politician.

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    Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
  • 31May

    Porfirio Díaz

    The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
  • 24Jul

    Machu Picchu

    Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
  • 29Aug

    Native Americans in the United States

    Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • 12Dec

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