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Ancestors (and descendant) of William Gordon Hopkins

Herbert Hopkins
1846-1936
Martha Anne "Annie" Newman
1856-1928

William Gordon Hopkins
1909-1984


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  1. Blandford/Branes-Austin Family Tree, GenComharris Family Tree. (Owner: alistairharris 1) / Ancestry.ca
  2. Blandford/Branes-Austin Family Tree, Hopkins Family Tree. (Owner: HopkinsStudio) / Ancestry.ca

Historical events

Birthday April 8, 1909

  • The temperature on April 8, 1909 was between -0.7 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (93%). 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 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.
    • February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
    • May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
    • July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
    • July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
    • December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
    • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Day of death November 11, 1984

  • The temperature on November 11, 1984 was between 8.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
    • February 29 » Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
    • May 8 » Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
    • May 8 » The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances.
    • May 17 » Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
    • June 8 » Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
    • August 30 » STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1906 » Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator († 1974)
  • 1908 » Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter († 1987)
  • 1909 » John Fante, American author and screenwriter († 1983)
  • 1910 » George Musso, American football player and police officer († 2000)
  • 1911 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic († 1995)
  • 1911 » Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)

Source: Wikipedia


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