Olson's Tree » Francis Appleton Wendell (1915-1979)
Personal data Francis Appleton Wendell
Source 1- He was born on July 12, 1915 in Boston Susse, Massachusetts.
- He died on October 22, 1979, he was 64 years old.
- A child of William Greenough Wendell and Ruth Appleton
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Birthday July 12, 1915
- The temperature on July 12, 1915 was between 9.3 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
- January 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
- January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
- May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
- July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
- August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
- October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
Day of death October 22, 1979
- The temperature on October 22, 1979 was between 3.4 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (90%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
- April 1 » Nickelodeon was launched in United States.
- April 6 » Student protests break out in Nepal.
- June 4 » Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
- July 3 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
- October 17 » Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- November 19 » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
Same birth/death day
- 1913 » Willis Lamb, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)
- 1914 » Mohammad Moin, Iranian linguist and lexicographer († 1971)
- 1915 » Emanuel Papper, American anesthesiologist, professor, and author († 2002)
- 1915 » Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, († 2007)
- 1916 » Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper († 1974)
- 1917 » Luigi Gorrini, Italian soldier and pilot († 2014)
- 1972 » James K. Baxter, New Zealand poet, writer, theologian, and social commentator. (b. 1926)
- 1973 » Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
- 1979 » Mieko Kamiya, Japanese psychiatrist and author (b. 1914)
- 1979 » Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (b. 1887)
- 1982 » Richard Hugo, American poet (b. 1923)
- 1985 » Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano and educator (b. 1894)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P13916.php : accessed January 17, 2026), "Francis Appleton Wendell (1915-1979)".