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Personal data William R Sharpling 

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Household of William R Sharpling

(1) He had a relationship with Rozetta Lee Sharpling.


Child(ren):

  1. X L Sharpling  1919-2003


(2) He has/had a relationship with Mertis Edna Sharpling.


Child(ren):

  1. X L Sharpling  1919-2003
  3. Norma Lee Bong  1927-2014

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Ancestors (and descendant) of William R Sharpling

William R Sharpling
1897-1969

(1) 

Rozetta Lee Sharpling
1893-1951

X L Sharpling
1919-2003
(2) 
Mertis Edna Sharpling
1891-1975

X L Sharpling
1919-2003
Robert Cecil Sharpling
1925-2011
Norma Lee Bong
1927-2014

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Sources

  1. U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  2. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Birthday April 30, 1897

  • The temperature on April 30, 1897 was about 17.8 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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 May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
    • February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
    • April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
    • July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
    • August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
    • September 11 » After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.

Day of death April 13, 1969

  • The temperature on April 13, 1969 was between 1.4 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
    • March 3 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
    • June 3 » Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USSFrank E. Evans in half.
    • August 4 » Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
    • October 21 » The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.
    • November 21 » U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
    • December 9 » U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.


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