Olson's Tree » Joseph Burnett (1874-1909)
Personal data Joseph Burnett
Source 1- He was born on December 28, 1874 in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
- He died on July 31, 1909 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, USA, he was 34 years old.
- A child of Edward Burnett and Mabel Lowell
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Birthday December 28, 1874
- The temperature on December 28, 1874 was about -5.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
- 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 year 1874: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- March 15 » France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
- March 18 » Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
- May 16 » A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
- May 27 » The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
- July 1 » The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
- July 23 » Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
Day of death July 31, 1909
- The temperature on July 31, 1909 was between 12.0 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
- March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
- August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
- August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
- September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
- September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
- December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
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- 1913 » John Milne, British geologist and mining engineer. (b. 1850)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P19095.php : accessed January 10, 2026), "Joseph Burnett (1874-1909)".