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Ancestors (and descendant) of William Hancock Davis

Calvin C DAVIS
1796-< 1880
Charlotte Davis
1796-1860
William Hancock
1791-1871
Hannah Harker Shackleford
1798-1885

William Hancock Davis
1861-1944


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    Birthday August 21, 1861

    • The temperature on August 21, 1861 was about 19.1 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. 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 February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
    • From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
    • In the year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 19 » American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States.
      • May 13 » Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
      • October 9 » American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
      • October 24 » The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
      • November 8 » American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USSSan Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
      • November 9 » The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, Toronto.

    Day of death August 21, 1944

    • The temperature on August 21, 1944 was between 12.7 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
      • March 4 » World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
      • April 14 » Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20million pounds.
      • June 22 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
      • August 2 » ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia.
      • August 6 » The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
      • September 19 » World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed.
    

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