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DJANGO TIMELINE

1910 Born Jean Baptiste Reinhardt, 23 January, Liverchies, Belgium

1911 Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an Atom

1912 Titanic Sinks

1914 WW I Begins

1919 Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I

1924 V.I. Lenin Dies

1927 Lindbergh Crosses Atlantic

1928 Makes first record appearance playing banjo with Jean Vaissade (accordion)

1928 Badly burnt in fire caravan accident, loses use of 2 of his fingers

1929 Stock Market Crash

1931 Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion

1931 Django heard jazz record for the first time

1931 Django meets Stephan Grappelli

1932 Selmer Maccaferri Models first introduced

1933 Prohibition Ends

1934 First recording session of "The Quintet of The Hot Club of France"

1939 Nazis invade Poland

1939 WW II starts, breaks up original "The Quintet of The Hot Club of France" .

1941 Pearl Harbour Attack

1943 Married Sophie Ziegler "Naguine"

1944 D-Day

1944 Son Babik born

1945 Atomic bombs drop at Hiroshima

1946 Regrouped with Stephan Grappelli

1946 Toured US with Duke Ellington big band

1948 Gandhi Assassinated

1949 Revolution in China

1951 Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WW II

1951 Retires to Samois near Fontainebleau, France

1953 DNA discovered

1953 Django records for the last time

1953 Died, Fontainebleau, France

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