Clarke Family Tree » William Henry Arthur Watts (1892-1976)
Personal data William Henry Arthur Watts
Source 1- He was born on July 25, 1892 in Gosford, New South Wales, Australia.
- He died on June 7, 1976 in Nowra, NSW, Australia, he was 83 years old.
- A child of William Henry Watts and Sarah Anne McCullough
Household of William Henry Arthur Watts
(1) He is married to Minnie Merlene Boxsell.
They got married on March 5, 1924 at Meroo via Nowra, New South Wales, Australia, he was 31 years old.
Child(ren):
- Keith Arthur Watts 1924-1949
(2) He is married to Ethel May Smith.
They got married in the year 1939 at Nowra, New South Wales, Australia, he was 46 years old.
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Historical events
Birthday July 25, 1892
- The temperature on July 25, 1892 was about 13.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
- July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
- August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
- August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
- October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
- December 17 » First issue of Vogue is published.
Day of marriage March 5, 1924
- The temperature on March 5, 1924 was between -2.6 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
- February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
- March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
- March 8 » A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
- May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
- May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
- December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
Day of death June 7, 1976
- The temperature on June 7, 1976 was between 6.6 °C and 27.4 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 15.7 hours of sunshine (95%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
- January 2 » The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
- June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
- July 1 » Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
- July 21 » Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
- September 16 » Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
- December 2 » Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
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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/I392494411120.php : accessed May 4, 2025), "William Henry Arthur Watts (1892-1976)".