Downs Tree » Henry Downs (1894-1953)

Personal data Henry Downs 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4Sources 1, 2, 3, 4

Household of Henry Downs

He had a relationship with Myrtle Downs.


Child(ren):

  1. Malcolm Reed Downs  1918-1968
  2. Jimmie Jarvis Downs  1920-1972
  3. William H. Downs  1922-1988
  4. Nellie Mae Austin  1926-2009
  5. Pearly Hood  1928-2018
  6. Billy W. Downs  1940-2001

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    Sources

    1. U.S., World War I Civilian Draft Registrations, 1917-1918, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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    3. U.S., Army Transport Service Arriving and Departing Passenger Lists, 1910-1939, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    4. 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Birthday September 10, 1894

    • The temperature on September 10, 1894 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
      • June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
      • July 22 » The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3hp petrol engined Peugeot.
      • July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
      • November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
      • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

    Day of death October 6, 1953

    • The temperature on October 6, 1953 was between 9.0 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
      • January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
      • February 3 » The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
      • April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
      • August 12 » The 7.2 Ms  Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
      • August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
      • December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
    

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