Clarke Family Tree » William Alexander Watt (1867-1943)
Personal data William Alexander Watt
Source 1- He was born on August 27, 1867 in Coolah, New South Wales, Australia.
- He died on July 5, 1943 in Gulgong, New South Wales, Australia, he was 75 years old.
- A child of Espie Watt and Jane Butler
Household of William Alexander Watt
He is married to Annie Maude Clark.
They got married in the year 1893 at Gulgong, New South Wales, Australia, he was 25 years old.
Child(ren):
- Espie Watt 1899-1935
- Lester Edwin WATT 1909-1996
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Birthday August 27, 1867
- The temperature on August 27, 1867 was about 17.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
- In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
- February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
- February 28 » Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
- July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
- August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
- November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
Day of death July 5, 1943
- The temperature on July 5, 1943 was between 9.4 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
- March 5 » First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
- March 27 » World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
- April 7 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
- July 24 » World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
- September 16 » World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
- October 19 » Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
Same birth/death day
- 1864 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast († 1919)
- 1865 » Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
- 1865 » James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian († 1935)
- 1868 » Hong Beom-do, Korean general and activist († 1943)
- 1870 » Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat († 1919)
- 1871 » Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist († 1945)
- 1943 » Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (b. 1873)
- 1943 » Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski, Polish actor (b. 1880)
- 1945 » John Curtin, Australian journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
- 1948 » Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
- 1948 » Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (b. 1888)
- 1948 » Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (b. 1871)
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Stephen Clarke, "Clarke Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/clarke-family-tree/I392494365419.php : accessed April 30, 2025), "William Alexander Watt (1867-1943)".