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Personal data Dan Gillenwatter 

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Household of Dan Gillenwatter

He had a relationship with Essie Gillenwater.


Child(ren):

  2. Ruth Helen McBride  1930-2002
  3. Nelly R Johnson  1932-1980

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Dan Gillenwatter

Joseph J Cross
1849-1887
Joanna L. Darby
1858-1892

Dan Gillenwatter
1906-1962


Essie Gillenwater
1911-1945

Sherrod M. Gillenwater
1929-1980
Ruth Helen McBride
1930-2002
Nelly R Johnson
1932-1980
Doris Jeanette Cagle
1935-1998

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    3. 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Birthday August 7, 1906

    • The temperature on August 7, 1906 was between 8.1 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
      • March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
      • May 22 » The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
      • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
      • August 16 » The 8.2 Mw Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
      • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
      • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

    Day of death August 23, 1962

    • The temperature on August 23, 1962 was between 10.7 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
      • February 10 » Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
      • August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
      • August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
      • October 3 » Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
      • October 27 » By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
      • December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
    

    Same birth/death day

    Source: Wikipedia

    • 1901 » Ann Harding, American actress and singer († 1981)
    • 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)
    • 1904 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
    • 1907 » Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter († 1980)
    • 1910 » Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader († 1965)
    • 1911 » István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician († 1979)

    Source: Wikipedia


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