Olson's Tree » William Thaw (1893-1934)
Personal data William Thaw
Source 1- He was born on August 12, 1893 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.
- He died on April 22, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA, he was 40 years old.
- A child of Benjamin Thaw and Elma Ellsworth Dows
Household of William Thaw
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Birthday August 12, 1893
- The temperature on August 12, 1893 was about 19.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- February 1 » Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
- May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- August 15 » Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
- November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
- December 4 » First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.
Day of death April 22, 1934
- The temperature on April 22, 1934 was between 5.1 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
- January 1 » Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.
- February 9 » The Balkan Entente is formed.
- February 16 » The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
- July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
- July 11 » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
- July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
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- 1929 » Henry Lerolle, French painter and art collector (b. 1848)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P14332.php : accessed January 9, 2026), "William Thaw (1893-1934)".