Clarke Family Tree » James William Newton (1908-1987)
Personal data James William Newton
- He was born on August 9, 1908 in Cargo, NSW, AU.
- He died on August 10, 1987 in Canowindra, NSW, AU, he was 79 years old.
- He is buried after August 10, 1987 in Lawn Cemetery, Row F Grave F42-F43, Canowindra, NSW, AU.
- A child of James Newton and Elizabeth Tennant Webb
Household of James William Newton
He is married to Alice Elizabeth Wright.
They got married in the year 1941 at Canowindra, NSW, AU, he was 32 years old.
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Historical events
Birthday August 9, 1908
- The temperature on August 9, 1908 was between 8.2 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
- January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
- January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
- April 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
- April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
- July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
- September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
Day of death August 10, 1987
- The temperature on August 10, 1987 was between 8.6 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
- February 6 » Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
- June 8 » New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
- June 28 » For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
- August 4 » The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
- August 16 » Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.
- October 21 » The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka, killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
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- 1911 » William Alfred Fowler, American astronomer and astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate († 1996)
- 1980 » Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
- 1982 » Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian author and poet (b. 1962)
- 1985 » Nate Barragar, American football player and sergeant (b. 1906)
- 1987 » Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893)
- 1991 » Lưu Trọng Lư, Vietnamese poet and playwright (b. 1912)
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The Clarke Family Tree publication was prepared by Stephen Clarke.
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Stephen Clarke, "Clarke Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/clarke-family-tree/I392494389976.php : accessed May 6, 2025), "James William Newton (1908-1987)".
Stephen Clarke, "Clarke Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/clarke-family-tree/I392494389976.php : accessed May 6, 2025), "James William Newton (1908-1987)".