Olson's Tree » Edward Coleman Delafield (1877-1976)
Personal data Edward Coleman Delafield
Source 1- He was born on July 10, 1877 in Westhampton, Suffolk County, New York, .
- He died on April 21, 1976 in Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida, USA, he was 98 years old.
- A child of Maturin Livingston Delafield and Mary Coleman Livingston
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Birthday July 10, 1877
- The temperature on July 10, 1877 was about 19.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
- In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1877: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- March 15 » First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
- May 5 » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
- May 9 » A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
- May 9 » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
- July 14 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias, and federal troops.
- September 5 » American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
Day of death April 21, 1976
- The temperature on April 21, 1976 was between 4.6 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
- January 18 » Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
- February 24 » The current constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.
- April 9 » The EMD F40PH diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak.
- April 11 » The Apple I is created.
- June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
- July 19 » Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
Same birth/death day
- 1874 » Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor († 1971)
- 1875 » Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian politician († 1973)
- 1875 » Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist († 1955)
- 1877 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist († 1935)
- 1878 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor († 1943)
- 1882 » Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts († 1975)
- 1973 » Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
- 1973 » Kemal Tahir, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1910)
- 1974 » Chic Harley, American football player (b. 1894)
- 1977 » Gummo Marx, American vaudevillian and talent agent (b. 1893)
- 1978 » Sandy Denny, English singer-songwriter (b.1947)
- 1978 » Thomas Wyatt Turner, American biologist and academic (b. 1877)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P18572.php : accessed February 3, 2026), "Edward Coleman Delafield (1877-1976)".