Carter-Aaron tree » William Earnest James Cowgill (1917-1969)
Personal data William Earnest James Cowgill
Source 1- He was born on December 9, 1917 in Petersham, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- He died on August 13, 1969 in Burwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, he was 51 years old.
- A child of William Gladstone Cowgill and Wilhelmina Howitt Medcalf
Household of William Earnest James Cowgill
He is married to Margaret Elizabeth Parker.
They got married in the year 1937 at Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, he was 19 years old.
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Sources
- Hainsworth Web Site, Ron Hainsworth, William Earnest James Cowgill, March 13, 2009
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Historical events
Birthday December 9, 1917
- The temperature on December 9, 1917 was between 0.3 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
- February 23 » First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
- March 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
- April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
- June 26 » World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
- October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
- November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
Day of death August 13, 1969
- The temperature on August 13, 1969 was between 12.6 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
- March 28 » Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
- April 17 » Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
- July 30 » Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
- September 5 » My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
- September 9 » In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
- December 8 » Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.
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