Ancestral Trails 2016 » William Alfred GROOM (1897-1916)

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Notes about William Alfred GROOM

1901 aged 3, living at Brickyard, South Normanton with parents, Henry and Eliza Groom, and two siblings.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of William Alfred GROOM

Mark ASKEW
1845-????
Eliza PAGE
1845-????
Henry GROOM
1875-1966
Eliza ASKEW
1880-1962

William Alfred GROOM
1897-1916


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Historical events

Birthday March 3, 1897

  • The temperature on March 3, 1897 was about 5.6 °C. The airpressure was 73 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
    • June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
    • July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
    • July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
    • September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
    • December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.

Day of death October 10, 1916

  • The temperature on October 10, 1916 was between 12.1 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • June 4 » World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
    • August 2 » World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
    • September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
    • September 15 » World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
    • November 5 » The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
    • November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1895 » Matthew Ridgway, American general († 1993)
  • 1895 » Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
  • 1898 » Emil Artin, Austrian-German mathematician and academic († 1962)
  • 1900 » Edna Best, British stage and film actress, appeared on early television in 1938 († 1974)
  • 1901 » Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier († 2011)

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