Olson's Tree » Pearl Ada Blank (1889-1943)
Personal data Pearl Ada Blank
Sources 1, 2, 3Sources 1, 2, 3, 4- She was born on August 26, 1889 in Bondville, Champaign County, Illinois, United States of America.Sources 2, 3, 4
- She died on April 4, 1943 in Bondville, Champaign County, Illinois, United States of America, she was 53 years old.Sources 3, 4
- She is buried in Monticello, Piatt County, Illinois, United States of America.Source 4
- A child of Chris Blank and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Renner
Household of Pearl Ada Blank
She is married to John F Zindars.
They got married in the year 1914 at Champaign, Illinois, USA, she was 24 years old.Source 2
Child(ren):
- Pearl Beals 1914-2010
- Lela Zindars 1916-1977
- Ethel May Zimdars 1924-1992
- Billy R Zindars 1926-1996
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Sources
- U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Illinois, County Marriage Records, 1800-1940, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday August 26, 1889
- The temperature on August 26, 1889 was about 15.1 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1889: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
- July 11 » Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
- August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
- September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
- November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
- November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
Day of death April 4, 1943
- The temperature on April 4, 1943 was between 2.8 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
- January 15 » World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
- March 22 » World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
- April 19 » Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
- June 19 » The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
- September 14 » World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
- October 19 » Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
Same birth/death day
- 1882 » James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
- 1882 » Sam Hardy, English footballer († 1966)
- 1885 » Jules Romains, French author and poet († 1972)
- 1888 » Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer († 1974)
- 1891 » Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author and playwright († 1960)
- 1894 » Sparky Adams, American baseball player and farmer († 1989)
- 1932 » Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- 1933 » Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American author and educator (b. 1842)
- 1941 » Emine Nazikedâ Kadınefendi, the first wife and chief consort of Sultan Mehmed VI (b. 1866)
- 1944 » Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect (b. 1878)
- 1951 » George Albert Smith, American religious leader, 8th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
- 1953 » Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)
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