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Personal data William K Turk 

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  • He was born on August 24, 1902 in Missouri, United States.
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1910: St Louis Ward 11, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri, United States.
    • in the year 1920: Jonesboro, Grant, Indiana, United States.
    • in the year 1930: Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, United States.
    • in the year 1935: Kokomo, Howard, Indiana.
    • in the year 1940: Area A, Hammond, North Township, Lake, Indiana, United States.
  • (Marriage) about 1928.
  • He died on August 26, 1985 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States, he was 83 years old.
  • He is buried on August 29, 1985.
  • A child of William Joseph Turk

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1902-1985


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Historical events

Birthday August 24, 1902

  • The temperature on August 24, 1902 was between 13.4 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
    • April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
    • April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
    • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
    • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
    • July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
    • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.

Day of death August 26, 1985

  • The temperature on August 26, 1985 was between 8.9 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
    • January 28 » Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
    • February 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
    • June 30 » Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
    • September 4 » The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
    • September 19 » Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
    • November 15 » The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.

Day of burial August 29, 1985

  • The temperature on August 29, 1985 was between 11.0 °C and 25.9 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
    • January 21 » Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashes near Reno–Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada, killing 70 people.
    • March 16 » Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
    • June 23 » A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
    • September 2 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.
    • November 13 » The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
    • November 13 » Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1900 » Maria Zubreeva, Soviet painter, graphic artist, and designer († 1991)
  • 1901 » Preston Foster, American actor († 1970)
  • 1902 » Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss († 1976)
  • 1902 » Fernand Braudel, French historian and academic († 1985)
  • 1903 » Karl Hanke, German businessman and politician († 1945)
  • 1904 » Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell († 1986)

Source: Wikipedia


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